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Mongoid
Mongoid is a polished, high-level Ruby gem for accessing MongoDB. Here I cover installation, adding fields, validations, associations, and keys.
(11 minutes)
Syntax Highlighting
Here I talk about three popular choices for syntax highlighting in Rails: CodeRay, Ultraviolet and Pygments.
(9 minutes)
OmniAuth Part 1
OmniAuth is an easy way to add many different authentication services to your app. In this episode we start integrating it with Devise.
(10 minutes)
Undo with Paper Trail
Undo and redo behavior is easy to add with a versioning gem such as Paper Trail. Learn how to add an undo link to any model's flash message.
(13 minutes)
Nested Model Form Part 1
Handling multiple models in a single form is much easier with the accepts_nested_attributes_for method. See how to use this method to handle nested model fields.
(11 minutes)
Testing JavaScript with Jasmine
Are you testing your JavaScript? Learn how to add specs using Jasmine. This episode also covers jQuery integration with jasmine-jquery.
(15 minutes)
MetaWhere & MetaSearch
MetaWhere provides a way to do complex find conditions without SQL in Active Record. MetaSearch makes it easy to create search forms with many find options.
(8 minutes)
Memoization
Rails 2.2 is out! In this episode I show how to upgrade Rails and then demonstrate one of the new additions: Memoization.
(5 minutes)
Beanstalkd and Stalker
Beanstalk is a fast and easy way to queue background tasks. Stalker provides a nice wrapper interface for creating these jobs.
(9 minutes)
jQuery
How do you use jQuery with Rails? In this episode I redo episode #43 using jQuery instead of Prototype/RJS.
(9 minutes)