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jQuery & Ajax (revised)
Episode #136 – Sep 28, 2012 – 146 comments

jQuery & Ajax (revised)

Here I go back to the basics and show how to turn a traditional Rails app into one that interacts through Ajax by adding "remote" options, JavaScript templates and a dabble of jQuery. (14 minutes)
Calendars (revised)
Episode #213 – Aug 10, 2012 – 127 comments

Calendars (revised)

Learn how to add a calendar to your Rails app. Whether it be a date picker using jQuery UI or a full page calendar for browsing records, I will show you how to do it in this episode. (9 minutes)
Tree-Based Navigation (revised)
Episode #162 – Dec 01, 2012 – 93 comments

Tree-Based Navigation (revised)

If your Rails app is content-heavy, consider organizing it in a tree menu structure. Here I show how to add top-level tabs, nested links in a side bar, and breadcrumbs to go up the hierarchy. (10 minutes)
Tagging
Episode #382 – Sep 22, 2012 – 125 comments

Tagging

There are several gems to help implement tags in a Rails app. Here I show you how to integrate acts-as-taggable-on and then show how to do it from scratch. (11 minutes)
Twitter Bootstrap Basics
Episode #328 – Feb 28, 2012 – 138 comments

Twitter Bootstrap Basics

Twitter Bootstrap can help make beautiful web apps quickly by providing you with useful CSS and JavaScript. Here you will learn how to include it into Rails with the twitter-bootstrap-rails gem. (10 minutes)
Syntax Highlighting (revised)
Episode #207 – May 11, 2012 – 58 comments

Syntax Highlighting (revised)

Here I compare several syntax highlighting solutions and show how to use Pygments in a Rails app. I also show how to integrate it with Markdown and add caching. (8 minutes)
Mercury Editor
Episode #296 – Nov 07, 2011 – 101 comments

Mercury Editor

Mercury allows you to edit a section of HTML directly in the web browser through a WYSIWYG editor. Here I show how to integrate Mercury into a Rails app and save the changes back to the database. (11 minutes)
HTTP Streaming
Episode #266 – May 16, 2011 – 53 comments

HTTP Streaming

HTTP Streaming allows the browser to start processing the HTML response while the Rails app is still processing the rest of the request. (9 minutes)
Charts
Episode #223 – Jul 19, 2010 – 81 comments

Charts

There are a number of libraries to help create graphs. Here I show how to integrate Highcharts into a Rails app. (16 minutes)
Mobile Devices
Episode #199 – Feb 01, 2010 – 89 comments

Mobile Devices

Change the look and behavior of a Rails app on mobile devices. Also use jQTouch to build a native-looking interface. (13 minutes)