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Git on Rails
Episode #96 – Mar 10, 2008 – 72 comments

Git on Rails

Git has been getting a lot of buzz lately, and for good reason. It's an excellent SCM which in many ways is more simple and powerful than subversion. See how to set up a Rails project with Git in this episode. (5 minutes)
More on ActiveResource
Episode #95 – Mar 02, 2008 – 55 comments

More on ActiveResource

See how to handle authentication and custom actions using ActiveResource in this episode. (8 minutes)
ActiveResource Basics
Episode #94 – Feb 24, 2008 – 54 comments

ActiveResource Basics

ActiveResource allows you to easily communicate between multiple Rails applications. See how in this episode. (7 minutes)
Action Caching
Episode #93 – Feb 17, 2008 – 37 comments

Action Caching

Action caching behaves much like page caching except it processes the controller filters. You can also make it conditional as seen in this episode. (7 minutes)
make_resourceful
Episode #92 – Feb 10, 2008 – 39 comments

make_resourceful

The make_resourceful plugin is a great way to DRY up the 7 RESTful actions common in most controllers. Learn how to use it in this episode. (6 minutes)
Refactoring Long Methods
Episode #91 – Feb 03, 2008 – 50 comments

Refactoring Long Methods

In this episode I walk you through an exercise in refactoring by taking a long method and making it more concise. (7 minutes)
Fragment Caching
Episode #90 – Jan 27, 2008 – 42 comments

Fragment Caching

Sometimes you only want to cache a section of a page instead of the entire page. Fragment caching is the answer as shown in this episode. (6 minutes)
Page Caching
Episode #89 – Jan 20, 2008 – 34 comments

Page Caching

Page caching is an efficient way to cache stateless content. In this episode I will show you how to cache the dynamic javascript we created last week. (6 minutes)
Dynamic Select Menus
Episode #88 – Jan 13, 2008 – 197 comments

Dynamic Select Menus

See how to dynamically change a select menu based on another select menu using Javascript. In this episode everything is kept client side which leads to a more responsive user interface. (7 minutes)
Generating RSS Feeds
Episode #87 – Jan 06, 2008 – 65 comments

Generating RSS Feeds

See how to easily generate and link to an RSS feed using new features in Rails 2.0. Watch this episode or details. (6 minutes)