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Analyzing the Production Log
In order to improve performance of your Rails application you need to find the bottlenecks. A great starting point is your production log. In this episode you will see how to use RAWK to analyze your log file and determine which controller actions take up the most processing time.
(5 minutes)
Generating PDF Documents
In this episode I will show you how to create PDF documents using the excellent PDF::Writer gem.
(7 minutes)
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)
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)
YAML Configuration File
Application configuration shouldn't be spread throughout your code base. Instead a much better place to put it is an external YAML file. See how to do that in this episode.
(7 minutes)
Simplify Views with Rails 2.0
Rails 2.0 is almost here. One of the many features in this release is the smarter helper methods which can make your views much cleaner. Learn all about it in this Episode.
(6 minutes)
will_paginate
In edge rails (soon to be Rails 2.0), the built-in pagination has been moved into a plugin: classic_pagination. I recommend jumping over to the will_paginate plugin as shown in this episode.
(6 minutes)
Fixtures in Rails 2.0
In Rails 2.0, fixtures see many improvements which makes them much easier to manage. Watch this episode for details.
(4 minutes)
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)
OpenID Authentication
Ever wonder how to implement OpenID authentication in your Rails app? This episode will show you how to add it to a site with an existing authentication system.
(11 minutes)