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Fast Rails Commands
Episode #412 – Apr 04, 2013 – 179 comments

Fast Rails Commands

Rails commands, such as generators, migrations, and tests, have a tendency to be slow because they need to load the Rails app each time. Here I show three tools to make this faster: Zeus, Spring, and Commands. (8 minutes)
Full-Text Search in PostgreSQL
Episode #343 – Apr 17, 2012 – 131 comments

Full-Text Search in PostgreSQL

Postgres offers full-text searching right out of the box. This episode shows how to write queries from scratch, apply tools like Texticle and pg_search, and optimize performance through indexes. (16 minutes)
Trinidad
Episode #377 – Aug 30, 2012 – 71 comments

Trinidad

Trinidad is designed to serve JRuby web applications and gives you the power of Java while still keeping the feel of traditional Rails deployment. Here I show how to setup a Capistrano recipe, configure it, and more. (15 minutes)
Hstore
Episode #345 – Apr 24, 2012 – 99 comments

Hstore

With hstore you can add schema-less data to PostgreSQL. This allows you to store model attributes without creating separate database columns. Watch how to do this using the activerecord-postgres-hstore gem. (10 minutes)
Beginning with Cucumber
Episode #155 – Mar 30, 2009 – 107 comments

Beginning with Cucumber

Cucumber is a high-level testing framework. In this episode we will create a new Rails application from scratch using behavior driven development. (15 minutes)
Integrating Active Merchant
Episode #145 – Jan 19, 2009 – 91 comments

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)
More on Cucumber
Episode #159 – Apr 27, 2009 – 57 comments

More on Cucumber

There is a lot more to Cucumber than I showed in an earlier episode. See how to refactor complex scenarios in this episode. (18 minutes)
Active Merchant Basics
Episode #144 – Jan 12, 2009 – 69 comments

Active Merchant Basics

Active Merchant is a great library for handling credit card transactions. In this episode I will show you the basics of using it to communicate with PayPal's gateway. (10 minutes)