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Upgrading to Rails 4
Episode #415May 06, 2013211 comments

Upgrading to Rails 4

With the release of Rails 4.0.0.rc1 it's time to try it out and report any bugs. Here I walk you through the steps to upgrade a Rails 3.2 application to Rails 4. (12 minutes)
Upgrading to Rails 3 Part 1
Episode #225Aug 02, 201061 comments

Upgrading to Rails 3 Part 1

In the first part of this series on upgrading a Rails 2 application to Rails 3, we'll start off by setting up Rails 3.0 Release Candidate in a clean environment. The rails_upgrade plugin will then help us determine what needs upgrading. (11 minutes)
Upgrading to Rails 3 Part 2
Episode #226Aug 09, 201048 comments

Upgrading to Rails 3 Part 2

Here we continue upgrading an application to Rails 3 by getting our specs up and running and going through the rails_upgrade plugin. (12 minutes)
Upgrading to Rails 3.1
Episode #282Sep 05, 201153 comments

Upgrading to Rails 3.1

It is incredibly easy to upgrade to Rails 3.1, but if you want to take advantage of the asset pipeline you will need to put in some extra effort. Have no fear because I walk you through each of the necessary steps in this episode. (8 minutes)
Upgrading to Rails 3 Part 3
Episode #227Aug 16, 201034 comments

Upgrading to Rails 3 Part 3

Here we finish up this upgrade series by removing all deprecation warnings and fixing some problems in the view. (9 minutes)
Upgrading to Rails 3.2
Episode #318Jan 23, 201252 comments

Upgrading to Rails 3.2

Rails 3.2 sports many new features including automatic explain queries, tagged logging, key-value store in Active Record, improved migration generator and more. Learn all about these new features in this episode. (9 minutes)
Trinidad
Episode #377Aug 30, 201271 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)
Nginx & Unicorn
Episode #293Oct 24, 201173 comments

Nginx & Unicorn

Nginx and Unicorn make a killer-combo for hosting a Rails application in production. Learn how to configure each in a Vagrant virtual machine in this episode. (19 minutes)
Memoization
Episode #137Nov 24, 200848 comments

Memoization

Rails 2.2 is out! In this episode I show how to upgrade Rails and then demonstrate one of the new additions: Memoization. (5 minutes)