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Foundation
Episode #417 – Jun 16, 2013 – 333 comments

Foundation

ZURB's Foundation is a front-end for quickly building applications and prototypes. It is similar to Twitter Bootstrap but uses Sass instead of LESS. Here you will learn the basics of the grid system, navigation, tooltips and more. (11 minutes)
Ember Part 2
Episode #410 – Mar 12, 2013 – 140 comments

Ember Part 2

Here we continue our look into Ember.js. First we add a JSON API to persist the entries through ember-data. Then we finish up the project by adding a computed property and a view object. (14 minutes)
Ember Part 1
Episode #408 – Mar 04, 2013 – 161 comments

Ember Part 1

Ember.js is a javascript framework for making rich client-side applications. In the first part of this two part series I show how to setup templates, controllers, and routes. (15 minutes)
Activity Feed from Scratch
Episode #407 – Feb 14, 2013 – 101 comments

Activity Feed from Scratch

Creating an activity feed presents some interesting challenges. Here I share my thought process behind my implementation including when to use callbacks and a few tricks with partials. (14 minutes)
Dynamic Forms
Episode #403 – Jan 27, 2013 – 120 comments

Dynamic Forms

Learn how to add fields to a form dynamically using another form, complete with custom field types. It's fieldception! (14 minutes)
Action View Walkthrough
Episode #397 – Dec 09, 2012 – 75 comments

Action View Walkthrough

Find out exactly what Rails is doing under the hood when it renders a view template for a response. What object context handles the template? How does the lookup process work? That and more covered in this code walkthrough. (15 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)
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)
Uploading to Amazon S3
Episode #383 – Sep 26, 2012 – 182 comments

Uploading to Amazon S3

Here I show how to upload files directly to Amazon S3 using CarrierWave Direct and Fog. I then walk through another project which uses jQuery File Upload to handle multiple files and does not use CarrierWave. (14 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)