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Thor
Episode #242Nov 29, 201038 comments

Thor

Thor is an alternative to Rake. It has better support for command line arguments and provides a way to add global scripts. (8 minutes)
ActiveRecord::Relation Walkthrough
Episode #239Nov 07, 201042 comments

ActiveRecord::Relation Walkthrough

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)
Polling for Changes
Episode #229Aug 30, 201061 comments

Polling for Changes

If you have frequently changing data on the server side, it's helpful to automatically display this to the user as well. Here I show how to accomplish this with polling in jQuery. (16 minutes)
SimpleForm
Episode #234Oct 04, 201050 comments

SimpleForm

Simple Form is a convenient way to generate forms with many options to customize the generated markup. (7 minutes)
Customizing Devise
Episode #210Apr 19, 201074 comments

Customizing Devise

Here we dive deeper into Devise by customizing how the views, routing, validations, and authentication works. (7 minutes)
Authorization with CanCan
Episode #192Dec 14, 2009114 comments

Authorization with CanCan

CanCan is a simple authorization plugin that offers a lot of flexibility. See how to use it in this episode. (15 minutes)
Routing Walkthrough Part 2
Episode #232Sep 19, 201037 comments

Routing Walkthrough Part 2

In this episode we continue our look into the Rails 3 router by exploring the Mapper class. (13 minutes)
Upgrading to Rails 3 Part 1
Episode #225Aug 02, 201061 comments

Upgrading to Rails 3 Part 1

In the first part of this series on upgrading a Rails 2 application to Rails 3, we'll start off by setting up Rails 3.0 Release Candidate in a clean environment. The rails_upgrade plugin will then help us determine what needs upgrading. (11 minutes)
Engage with Devise
Episode #233Sep 27, 201041 comments

Engage with Devise

Janrain Engage (aka RPX) makes it easy to support many authentication solutions through their one service. (6 minutes)
Cropping Images
Episode #182Oct 05, 2009144 comments

Cropping Images

Present a slick user interface for cropping image attachments using Jcrop and Paperclip. (14 minutes)