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Self-Referential Association
Creating a social networking site often requires a self-referential association on the User model to define friends/followers. In this episode I show how to do exactly that.
(14 minutes)
Tree Based Navigation
The acts_as_tree plugin provides many methods for handling a tree based association. In this episode I show how to build a navigation system with tabs, subpages, and breadcrumbs.
(11 minutes)
Polymorphic Association
Polymorphic associations can be perplexing. In this episode I show you how to set it up in Active Record and then move to the controller and view layer.
(8 minutes)
Rails 2.3 Extras
This episode finishes up this series on Rails 2.3. Here you will learn about several smaller additions in 2.3.
(9 minutes)
Sortable Lists
Creating drag & drop sortable lists is fairly easy using Prototype and the built in helper methods. See how in this episode.
(8 minutes)
Integrating Active Merchant
In this episode I show how to add Active Merchant's functionality to a Rails application to make a fully-functional checkout process.
(18 minutes)
Rails 2.2 Extras
This episode finishes up the Rails 2.2 series by showing a few miscellaneous additions that I find useful.
(4 minutes)
Making a Gem
Want to create a Ruby Gem instead of a Rails plugin? In this episode I will walk you through creating a gem to extend Rails.
(9 minutes)
Helpers Outside Views
Have you ever wanted to access helper methods outside of the view layer? In this episode I show you a couple ways to do just that.
(6 minutes)
Populating a Database
Have you ever wanted to fill up a database with a lot of test data? See how to do that in this episode using the populator and faker gems.
(8 minutes)