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Virtual Machines with Vagrant
Episode #292 – Oct 24, 2011 – 81 comments

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)
Exception Notifications (revised)
Episode #104 – Oct 20, 2011 – 42 comments

Exception Notifications (revised)

Few things are worse than seeing a "Something went wrong" 500 error on your production application. Here I show how to be notified when this happens using exception_notification and mention several other alternatives. (6 minutes)
Testing with VCR
Episode #291 – Oct 17, 2011 – 53 comments

Testing with VCR

If you ever need to test an application which communicates with an external API, VCR is the way to go. Here I show a workflow in RSpec, how to use with capybara-mechanize, how to add sanitization filtering, and more. (13 minutes)
SOAP with Savon
Episode #290 – Oct 17, 2011 – 46 comments

SOAP with Savon

Communicating with a SOAP API can be a daunting task. Savon makes this easier by presenting the SOAP API through a Ruby interface. (9 minutes)
Sortable Lists (revised)
Episode #147 – Oct 13, 2011 – 131 comments

Sortable Lists (revised)

Here I show how to use jQuery UI to make a sortable list and a "sort" action to handle the updating. Top it off with acts_as_list to make it feature complete. (6 minutes)
PayPal Recurring Billing
Episode #289 – Oct 10, 2011 – 142 comments

PayPal Recurring Billing

Here I show how to add PayPal recurring payments to an existing checkout process using PayPal's Express Checkout and the paypal-recurring gem. (24 minutes)
Billing with Stripe
Episode #288 – Oct 10, 2011 – 125 comments

Billing with Stripe

Stripe is a full-stack payment solution with very reasonable pricing and is easy to setup. See how to add it to a Rails application here. Currently only available in the US. (16 minutes)
will_paginate (revised)
Episode #51 – Oct 06, 2011 – 46 comments

will_paginate (revised)

Almost every Rails application needs pagination, and will_paginate is a great way to go. Here I show you how to set it up, customize the way it looks, and see how it compares with Kaminari. (6 minutes)
Presenters from Scratch
Episode #287 – Oct 03, 2011 – 122 comments

Presenters from Scratch

Clean up complex view logic with the help of presenters, and doing this from scratch gives you a lot of flexibility. Here I show not only how to create presenters, but how to test them using Test Unit and RSpec. (14 minutes)
Draper
Episode #286 – Oct 03, 2011 – 71 comments

Draper

Clean up complex view logic using Draper. This gem provides decorators (much like presenters) which bundles view logic in an object oriented fashion. In this episode I do a step-by-step refactoring of a complex template into a decorator. (12 minutes)