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Polling for Changes
Episode #229Aug 30, 201061 comments

Polling for Changes

If you have frequently changing data on the server side, it's helpful to automatically display this to the user as well. Here I show how to accomplish this with polling in jQuery. (16 minutes)
SimpleForm
Episode #234Oct 04, 201050 comments

SimpleForm

Simple Form is a convenient way to generate forms with many options to customize the generated markup. (7 minutes)
Engage with Devise
Episode #233Sep 27, 201041 comments

Engage with Devise

Janrain Engage (aka RPX) makes it easy to support many authentication solutions through their one service. (6 minutes)
Monitoring with God
Episode #130Oct 05, 200849 comments

Monitoring with God

Need to ensure your background processes stay up and running and don't use too many resources? Check out the god gem as shown in this episode. (14 minutes)
Validations in Rails 3
Episode #211Apr 26, 201059 comments

Validations in Rails 3

Rails 3 offers several new additions to validations. Here learn how to make a custom error_messages partial, reflect on validations, and clean up complex validations in a model. (9 minutes)
Authorization with CanCan
Episode #192Dec 14, 2009114 comments

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)
Generators in Rails 3
Episode #216May 31, 201040 comments

Generators in Rails 3

Generators in Rails 3 have been completely rewritten to be more modular. This allows you to customize any generator to fit your specific preferences. (11 minutes)
ERB Blocks in Rails 3
Episode #208Apr 05, 201060 comments

ERB Blocks in Rails 3

Blocks in ERB templates are handled differently in Rails 3.0 Beta 2. Learn all about it in this episode. (9 minutes)
Upgrading to Rails 3 Part 3
Episode #227Aug 16, 201034 comments

Upgrading to Rails 3 Part 3

Here we finish up this upgrade series by removing all deprecation warnings and fixing some problems in the view. (9 minutes)
Declarative Authorization
Episode #188Nov 16, 2009114 comments

Declarative Authorization

Declarative authorization provides an advanced and powerful solution for role based authorization. (15 minutes)