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AJAX History and Bookmarks
Episode #175 – Aug 17, 2009 – 76 comments

AJAX History and Bookmarks

Browser page history and bookmarks do not usually work with AJAX requests, but in this episode I show you how to remedy this problem using a simple jQuery plugin. (11 minutes)
Pagination with AJAX
Episode #174 – Aug 10, 2009 – 91 comments

Pagination with AJAX

Learn an easy, unobtrusive way to add AJAX functionality to an existing set of pagination links using jQuery. (13 minutes)
Screen Scraping with ScrAPI
Episode #173 – Aug 03, 2009 – 57 comments

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)
Touch and Cache
Episode #172 – Jul 27, 2009 – 52 comments

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)
Delayed Job
Episode #171 – Jul 20, 2009 – 75 comments

Delayed Job

Is there a long running task which should be handled in the background? One of the best ways is using the delayed_job plugin like I show in this episode. (10 minutes)
OpenID with Authlogic
Episode #170 – Jul 13, 2009 – 72 comments

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)
Dynamic Page Caching
Episode #169 – Jul 06, 2009 – 79 comments

Dynamic Page Caching

Use JavaScript to allow dynamic content in a page cache. In this episode I show you how to insert the user-specific content into a page through JavaScript. (11 minutes)
Feed Parsing
Episode #168 – Jun 29, 2009 – 55 comments

Feed Parsing

Learn two different techniques for parsing an RSS feed using Feedzirra in this episode! (10 minutes)
More on Virtual Attributes
Episode #167 – Jun 22, 2009 – 50 comments

More on Virtual Attributes

Use a virtual attribute to implement a simple tagging feature. In this episode I show you how to assign virtual attributes through a callback instead of a setter method. (7 minutes)
Metric Fu
Episode #166 – Jun 15, 2009 – 43 comments

Metric Fu

Metric Fu is a compilation of several tools to help find areas of code that could be improved. In this episode I show you how to setup this tool on the railscasts.com source code. (9 minutes)