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PODCAST

RailsCasts (Mobile)

Every other week you will be treated to a new, free RailsCasts episode featuring tips and tricks with Ruby on Rails, the popular web development framework. These screencasts are short and focus on one technique so you can quickly move on to applying it to your own project. The topics are geared toward the intermediate Rails developer, but beginners and experts will get something out of it as well. A Pro option is also available containing more screencasts each week. This version is for mobile

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10:27

#364 Active Record Reputation System

RailsCasts (Mobile) ·

2012/07/09

If you need to calculate an average user's rating or sum up a number of votes, consider using the activerecord-reputation-system gem. Here I will cover the basics and also briefly present a from-scratch solution.

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6:35

#362 Exporting CSV and Excel

RailsCasts (Mobile) ·

2012/07/02

As you will see it is easy to add a CSV export option to Rails. Here I also show how to export for Excel in a variety of formats.

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12:09

#360 Facebook Authentication

RailsCasts (Mobile) ·

2012/06/25

This will show how to create a new facebook application and configure it. Then add some authentication with the omniauth-facebook gem and top it off with a client-side authentication using the JavaScript SDK.

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8:24

#358 Brakeman

RailsCasts (Mobile) ·

2012/06/15

The Brakeman gem will scan the Ruby code of a Rails application and alert you to common security vulnerabilities.

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6:26

#356 Dangers of Session Hijacking

RailsCasts (Mobile) ·

2012/06/08

If a user's authentication cookie is sent over an insecure connection it is vulnerable to session hijacking, or more specifically, sidejacking. Learn how this is done, and how you can prevent it.

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9:10

#354 Squeel

RailsCasts (Mobile) ·

2012/05/30

Squeel provides a comprehensive DSL for writing SQL queries in Ruby. It is built upon Arel giving you access to many of its powerful features.

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7:42

#352 Securing an API

RailsCasts (Mobile) ·

2012/05/23

There are many approaches to locking down an API. Here I start off with HTTP Basic authentication then move on to generating a unique token which can be passed through a URL parameter or HTTP header.

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10:40

#350 REST API Versioning

RailsCasts (Mobile) ·

2012/05/16

APIs should be consistent, but it is difficult to do this when returning a JSON response along side the HTML interface. Here I show how to add a versioned, RESTful API. The version can be determined from either the URL or HTTP headers.

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9:56

#348 The Rails API Gem

RailsCasts (Mobile) ·

2012/05/09

It is often asked: Is Rails a good fit if I only need to serve an API? In this episode I show how to use the Rails API gem to create a slimmer Rails application designed to respond with JSON.

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11:57

#346 Wizard Forms with Wicked

RailsCasts (Mobile) ·

2012/05/03

Creating a wizard form can be tricky in Rails. Learn how Wicked can help by turning a controller into a series of multiple steps.

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17:04

#347 Rubber and Amazon EC2

RailsCasts (Mobile) ·

2012/05/03

Deploying to Amazon EC2 allows you to scale an application quickly. Learn how to use Rubber to deploy to the cloud with just a few commands and monitor the cluster with various web tools.

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8:07

#344 Queue Classic

RailsCasts (Mobile) ·

2012/04/24

PostgreSQL can act as a worker queue which can replace the need for a separate process to manage the background jobs. Here you will learn how to do this with the queue_classic gem.

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8:14

#342 Migrating to PostgreSQL

RailsCasts (Mobile) ·

2012/04/17

Postgres is a feature-packed relational database that every Rails developer should consider using. Here you will learn how to install it, add it to a new application, and transition from an existing SQLite app using the "taps" gem.

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9:40

#340 DataTables

RailsCasts (Mobile) ·

2012/04/11

DataTables makes it easy to convert a plain HTML table into one with pagination, sorting, and searching - all done with JavaScript and jQuery. Here I show how to set this up and use a Rails application as the data source.

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5:57

#338 Globalize3

RailsCasts (Mobile) ·

2012/04/04

Rails has great internationalization (I18n) support making it easy to translate static text into other languages, but how do we translate database content? Learn how using Globalize 3 in this episode.

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6:48

#336 Copycopter

RailsCasts (Mobile) ·

2012/03/27

Copycopter provides a nice interface that clients can use to edit the text in a Rails application. Learn how to deploy a Copycopter server using Heroku and integrate it in a Rails application through I18n.

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9:50

#334 Compass & CSS Sprites

RailsCasts (Mobile) ·

2012/03/21

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.

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11:26

#332 Refinery CMS Basics

RailsCasts (Mobile) ·

2012/03/14

If you need to quickly create an informational site that can be easily edited, consider using a content management system. Here I show how to build a site using Refinery CMS.

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7:19

#330 Better Sass with Bourbon

RailsCasts (Mobile) ·

2012/03/07

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.

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10:11

#328 Twitter Bootstrap Basics

RailsCasts (Mobile) ·

2012/02/28

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.

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