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Authorization with CanCan
CanCan is a simple authorization plugin that offers a lot of flexibility. See how to use it in this episode.
(15 minutes)
Routing Walkthrough Part 2
In this episode we continue our look into the Rails 3 router by exploring the Mapper class.
(13 minutes)
Upgrading to Rails 3 Part 1
In the first part of this series on upgrading a Rails 2 application to Rails 3, we'll start off by setting up Rails 3.0 Release Candidate in a clean environment. The rails_upgrade plugin will then help us determine what needs upgrading.
(11 minutes)
Engage with Devise
Janrain Engage (aka RPX) makes it easy to support many authentication solutions through their one service.
(6 minutes)
Cropping Images
Present a slick user interface for cropping image attachments using Jcrop and Paperclip.
(14 minutes)
Declarative Authorization
Declarative authorization provides an advanced and powerful solution for role based authorization.
(15 minutes)
Advanced Search Form
If you need to create an advanced search with a lot of fields, it may not be ideal to use a GET request as I showed in episode 37. In this episode I will show you how to handle this by creating a Search resource.
(7 minutes)
Controllers in Rails 3
Embedded flash notices, permanent cookies, and the details of respond_with are in this episode.
(10 minutes)
Unobtrusive Javascript
Keep JavaScript out of your HTML content with unobtrusive JavaScript. Here I show how Rails 3 works with this best practice.
(13 minutes)
Active Model
In Rails 3 the non-database functionality of Active Record is extracted out into Active Model. This allows you to cleanly add validations and other features to tableless models.
(6 minutes)