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OpenID with Authlogic
Learn how to apply OpenID to an existing Authlogic setup as I show in this episode. This builds upon the app from episode 160.
(11 minutes)
Touch and Cache
Rails 2.3.3 brings us a new feature called "touch". See how to use this to auto-expire associated caches in this episode.
(6 minutes)
Screen Scraping with ScrAPI
Screen scraping is not pretty, but sometimes it's your only option to extract content from an external site. In this episode I show you how to fetch product prices using ScrAPI.
(15 minutes)
Cron in Ruby
Cron is great for handling recurring tasks, but it is an external dependency with a crazy syntax. In this episode I show you how to use Whenever to create cron jobs with Ruby.
(8 minutes)
Feed Parsing
Learn two different techniques for parsing an RSS feed using Feedzirra in this episode!
(10 minutes)
Factories not Fixtures
Fixtures are external dependencies which can make tests brittle and difficult to read. In this episode I show a better alternative using factories to generate the needed records.
(12 minutes)
Integrating Active Merchant
In this episode I show how to add Active Merchant's functionality to a Rails application to make a fully-functional checkout process.
(18 minutes)
More on Cucumber
There is a lot more to Cucumber than I showed in an earlier episode. See how to refactor complex scenarios in this episode.
(18 minutes)
Three Profiling Tools
Ever want to know what Rails is doing under the hood during a request? In this episode I show three different profiling tools: New Relic RPM, FiveRuns TuneUp, and Rack::Bug.
(7 minutes)
Webrat
If you prefer writing integration tests in ruby instead of Cucumber's plain english, consider interacting with Webrat directly as I show in this episode.
(7 minutes)