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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)
Logging Variables
Episode #86 – Dec 30, 2007 – 27 comments

Logging Variables

Have you ever wanted to easily log all variables? Now you can by using some advanced Ruby concepts as shown in this episode. (6 minutes)