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Compass & CSS Sprites
Episode #334 – Mar 21, 2012 – 57 comments

Compass & CSS Sprites

Compass improves the Sass experience by providing useful mixins, functions, and more. You will also learn how to make CSS sprites with it in this episode. (9 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)
Better Sass with Bourbon
Episode #330 – Mar 07, 2012 – 65 comments

Better Sass with Bourbon

If you are tired of the browser vendor prefixes in CSS, check out Bourbon. It provides Sass mixins and functions to make CSS more convenient. (7 minutes)
jQuery File Upload
Episode #381 – Sep 21, 2012 – 167 comments

jQuery File Upload

Here you will learn how to upload multiple files over ajax using jQuery File Upload. I start with the basic functionality and customize it to fit the user interface. (13 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)
More on Twitter Bootstrap
Episode #329 – Feb 28, 2012 – 117 comments

More on Twitter Bootstrap

This episode continues on the Twitter Bootstrap project showing how to display flash messages, add form validations with SimpleForm, customize layout with variables, and switch to using Sass. (12 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)
Sortable Table Columns
Episode #228 – Aug 23, 2010 – 97 comments

Sortable Table Columns

Here I walk you through adding the ability to sort table columns in ascending or descending order by clicking the header. (10 minutes)
Calendars
Episode #213 – May 10, 2010 – 103 comments

Calendars

If dates play an important role in your application, consider adding a date picker or calendar view as shown in this episode. (9 minutes)
Syntax Highlighting
Episode #207 – Mar 29, 2010 – 42 comments

Syntax Highlighting

Here I talk about three popular choices for syntax highlighting in Rails: CodeRay, Ultraviolet and Pygments. (9 minutes)