Ruby on Rails Screencasts

Episode #353 – May 23, 2012 – 90 comments

OAuth with Doorkeeper

Doorkeeper makes it easy to create an OAuth 2 provider. This episode also shows how to setup OmniAuth as an OAuth client and use the oauth2 gem to communicate with an API. (19 minutes)

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Episode #324 – Feb 13, 2012 – 77 comments

Passing Data to JavaScript

There are a variety of ways to pass variables from a Rails application to JavaScript. Here I show three techniques: a script tag, a data attribute, and the Gon gem. (6 minutes)

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Episode #307 – Dec 12, 2011 – 61 comments

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)

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Episode #295 – Oct 31, 2011 – 55 comments

Mustache is a simple, logic-less templating language which allows you to use the same template for both Ruby and JavaScript. See how to set it up with a custom template handler in this episode. (17 minutes)

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Episode #258 – Mar 21, 2011 – 118 comments

Token Fields

With the jQuery Tokeninput plugin it is easy to add an autocompleting list of entries for a many-to-many association. (11 minutes)

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Episode #260 – Apr 04, 2011 – 117 comments

Messaging with Faye

Faye is a subscription/publishing server which makes it easy to do push notifications within a Rails app. (13 minutes)

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Episode #297 – Nov 07, 2011 – 47 comments

Running JavaScript in Ruby

Sometimes logic needs to be shared between the server-side (Ruby) and the client-side (JavaScript). Here I show how to run JavaScript directly in Ruby through ExecJS and therubyracer. (14 minutes)

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