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My Favorite Web Apps in 2009
Here I show several of my favorite web applications which I found most helpful as a Ruby developer over the past year.
(6 minutes)
Mechanize
Mechanize extends the power of Nokogiri allowing you to interact with multiple pages on the site: click links, submit forms, etc.
(10 minutes)
Searchlogic
Searchlogic makes searching models easier than ever with its assortment of named scopes. In this episode I show you how to create simple and advanced searches.
(13 minutes)
Formtastic Part 1
Formtastic is a concise way to generate form views. In this episode (part 1 of 2) I show how to generate both a simple form and a more complex one which is customized with options.
(10 minutes)
Polymorphic Association
Polymorphic associations can be perplexing. In this episode I show you how to set it up in Active Record and then move to the controller and view layer.
(8 minutes)
Authlogic
Authentication can get very complex. In this episode I show how Authlogic can handle this complexity while you stay in control of how it is presented to the user.
(14 minutes)
Formtastic Part 2
Learn about some of the more advanced functionality of Formtastic including handling many-to-many associations, required fields, and styling.
(9 minutes)
Screen Scraping with Nokogiri
Screen scraping is easy with Nokogiri and SelectorGadget.
(13 minutes)
Tableless Model
If you want to create a model without a database backend, you simply need to define a couple methods in the model like I show in this episode.
(8 minutes)
Pickle with Cucumber
Pickle adds many convenient Cucumber steps for generating models. Also learn about table diffs in this episode.
(16 minutes)