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Authentication with Sorcery
Sorcery is a full-featured, modular solution to authentication which leaves the controller and view layers up to you.
(10 minutes)
Playing with PJAX
PJAX allows you to quickly update a section of a page using AJAX with automatic pushState support. Here I show how to use both pjax_rails and rack-pjax gems.
(8 minutes)
Virtual Machines with Vagrant
Vagrant allows you to run your Rails application and all of its dependencies in a portable, sharable environment. Use for development, set it up as a staging server, or experiment with a production setup.
(11 minutes)
Upgrading to Rails 3.2
Rails 3.2 sports many new features including automatic explain queries, tagged logging, key-value store in Active Record, improved migration generator and more. Learn all about these new features in this episode.
(9 minutes)
ElasticSearch Part 1
Add full text searching using ElasticSearch and Tire. Here I will show the steps involved in adding this search to an existing application. This is the first part in a two part series.
(9 minutes)
Thinking Sphinx (revised)
Sphinx is a full-text search engine for use with MySQL or PostgreSQL. Learn how to add Thinking Sphinx by defining an index on your model and searching with various options.
(10 minutes)
ElasticSearch Part 2
This final part on ElasticSearch and Tire will show how to make more complex search queries, customize the indexing, and add facets.
(16 minutes)
Nginx & Unicorn
Nginx and Unicorn make a killer-combo for hosting a Rails application in production. Learn how to configure each in a Vagrant virtual machine in this episode.
(19 minutes)
Rollout and Degrade
Learn how to use the Rollout gem to deploy a feature to a select group of users and the Degrade gem to automatically disable it upon failure. Also included is a way of doing this from scratch.
(13 minutes)
Authentication from Scratch
Password authentication is not too complicated to make from scratch, it will also help to get a better understanding of how it works.
(15 minutes)