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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)
Beginning with Cucumber
Cucumber is a high-level testing framework. In this episode we will create a new Rails application from scratch using behavior driven development.
(15 minutes)
Polymorphic Association
Polymorphic associations can be perplexing. In this episode I show you how to set it up in Active Record and then move to the controller and view layer.
(8 minutes)
PDFs with Prawn
Prawn is an excellent Ruby library for generating PDF documents. Learn how to use it along with the Prawnto plugin in this episode.
(10 minutes)
Rails 2.3 Extras
This episode finishes up this series on Rails 2.3. Here you will learn about several smaller additions in 2.3.
(9 minutes)
Rack Middleware
Rack middleware is a way to filter a request and response coming into your application. In this episode I show how to modify the response body using middleware.
(12 minutes)
Rails Metal
Rails Metal is a way to bypass the standard Rails request process for a performance boost. In this episode you will learn how to shave off a few milliseconds using Metal.
(9 minutes)
Rails Engines
Rails 2.3 brings us much of the same functionality as the Rails Engines plugin. Learn how to embed one application into another in this episode.
(8 minutes)
App Templates in Rails 2.3
In Rails 2.3 you can provide a template when generating a new Rails application. See how in this episode.
(11 minutes)
Sortable Lists
Creating drag & drop sortable lists is fairly easy using Prototype and the built in helper methods. See how in this episode.
(8 minutes)