Beanstalk is a fast and easy way to queue background tasks. Stalker provides a nice wrapper interface for creating these jobs. (9 minutes)

Thor is an alternative to Rake. It has better support for command line arguments and provides a way to add global scripts. (8 minutes)

Authentication is incredibly simple to add with just OmniAuth if you don't need username/password or multiple authentications per user. (9 minutes)

Many administration pages have search, sorting, and pagination on the index page. See how to add all of this including AJAX. (13 minutes)

The new Active Record query methods in Rails 3 might seem like magic at first. But in this episode I unravel how it works by browsing the Rails 3 source code. (11 minutes)

Mongoid is a polished, high-level Ruby gem for accessing MongoDB. Here I cover installation, adding fields, validations, associations, and keys. (11 minutes)

It is important to use attr_accessible for security with mass assignment, but what if you need it to be dynamic based on user permissions? See how in this episode. (9 minutes)

In this episode we continue our look at integrating OmniAuth with devise. Here I show how to set up new users with validations. (15 minutes)

OmniAuth is an easy way to add many different authentication services to your app. In this episode we start integrating it with Devise. (10 minutes)

Simple Form is a convenient way to generate forms with many options to customize the generated markup. (7 minutes)