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Declarative Authorization
Declarative authorization provides an advanced and powerful solution for role based authorization.
(15 minutes)
Pickle with Cucumber
Pickle adds many convenient Cucumber steps for generating models. Also learn about table diffs in this episode.
(16 minutes)
Formtastic Part 2
Learn about some of the more advanced functionality of Formtastic including handling many-to-many associations, required fields, and styling.
(9 minutes)
Formtastic Part 1
Formtastic is a concise way to generate form views. In this episode (part 1 of 2) I show how to generate both a simple form and a more complex one which is customized with options.
(10 minutes)
Cropping Images
Present a slick user interface for cropping image attachments using Jcrop and Paperclip.
(14 minutes)
Finding Unused CSS
Over time a CSS file can become large and filled with unused selectors. In this episode I show how to use the Deadweight gem to determine which CSS selects you can remove.
(8 minutes)
Model Versioning
If you need to keep track of a model's history of changes and switch between versions, consider using the vestal_versions gem like I show in this episode.
(9 minutes)
Searchlogic
Searchlogic makes searching models easier than ever with its assortment of named scopes. In this episode I show you how to create simple and advanced searches.
(13 minutes)
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)
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)