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Shoulda on Rails

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2010/05/18

Shoulda is a framework that sits on top of Test::Unit and adds a ton of nice features like macro's, nested context, and the ability to create custom tests in a block-based DSL. Download 160.2 MB Download (iphone & ipod) 71.9 MB

RSpec Subjects

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2010/05/05

RSpec provides an extremely concise way of representing simple tests to be called on new instances of a class or on explicitly defined receiver objects. You can do this by using 'subjects' either as defined by the 'describe' or the 'subject' methods. Download 38 MB Download (iphone & ipod) 18.2 MB

Code Metrics with Metric Fu

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2010/04/20

Maintainability of your code can be measured in many different ways. Jake Scruggs has combined several of the tools that measure you code into one Ruby Gem: metric_fu. Here's a demonstration. Go check it out! Download 116.1 MB Download (iphone & ipod) 55.8 MB

Ruby’s Percent Functions

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2010/04/13

Ruby uses special characters to define certain data types. If you wish to use these characters in your data types, you need to escape them or use percent functions. Percent functions are much simpler. Download 35.8 MB Download (iphone & ipod) 14.7 MB

Nested Forms With JQuery

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2010/04/06

Ruby on Rails allows you to nest models within a form. Ryan Bates of Railscasts demonstrated how to set up these forms with JavaScript using the Prototype framework, which ships with Rails. In this episode, Charles Max Wood gives a brief overview of how Ryan's code works, and then refactors the JavaScript to use JQuery. Ryan Bates demonstrated how to build a form with nested attributes in Ruby on Rails with Prototype. This screencast demonstrates how to refactor that form into usage of

RVM – Ruby Version Manager

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2010/03/23

RVM is a program that allows you to install and manage multiple versions of Ruby and Gems. This setup is ideal for testing your application or gem (library) against multiple versions of Ruby.Also, if you're looking into Rails 3 on Ruby 1.9 this is a great way to try it out. Are you thinking about moving your application to Ruby 1.9? Do you have a gem or plugin you need to test in multiple Ruby versions? RVM is your tool. It allows you to manage and install multiple Ruby versions and the gems

Gem Bundler

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2010/03/10

Loading multiple Ruby Gems can result in runtime errors when an incompatible version of a gem dependency is already loaded as a dependency of another gem.Gem bundler can also pre-load and cache gems for faster loading. Having two gems that require different versions of the same dependency can sometimes cause runtime errors. Yehuda Katz and Carl Lerche have created an elegant solution in the Gem Bundler. Download 108.8 MB Download (iphone & ipod) 48.8 MB

Skinning in Grails

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2010/03/02

In this screencast, I cover how to use custom Grails configurations along with filters to enable url-based site skins. Download 98.7 MB Download (iphone & ipod) 47.8 MB

Ruby Essentials – Strings, Arrays and Hashes

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2010/02/17

Are you new to Ruby and want to get a head start? In this screencast, I discuss some of the most common methods and techniques that have to do with strings, arrays and hashes. This is also excellent for those coming from other languages. Download 49.8 MB Download (iphone & ipod) 26.9 MB

Introduction to Grails – Part 2

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2010/02/08

In this screencast, we continue on our task of creating a 'Stack Overflow' clone by adding more domain classes and relationships between them. We also cover how to test your classes using integration tests. Download 230.7 MB Download (iphone & ipod) 100 MB

Introduction to Grails – Part 1

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2010/01/25

Are you new to Grails? Grails is an excellent alternative to Ruby on Rails, which uses Groovy / Java. In this screencast, learn how to create a simple CRUD system with Grails. Download 83 MB Download (iphone & ipod) 35.1 MB

Creating an Admin using Nested Controllers

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2010/01/19

In this screencast, I cover how to create an admin section with a separate login, and describe how nested controllers work. Download 141.5 MB Download (iphone & ipod) 60.4 MB

Easy Rails Jukebox Application

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2010/01/17

Create a Ruby on Rails Jukebox Application and implement the "permalink" feature instead of the usage of "ID". Taking advantage of the "Counter Cache" you will be able to automatically keep track of the number of Albums asociated with each Artist. The last part spicy up the application with the usage of the Themes plugin for Rails. Download 97.95 MB Download (iphone & ipod) 38.25 MB

Essential CSS for Every Web Developer

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2010/01/02

Want to know the basics of CSS? Watch this screencast and learn everything you should know as a web developer. We'll cover the basics which include colors, borders, padding, margins, lists, fonts, backgrounds, tables, links and floats. This is a very basic screencast, so if you are already familiar with these topics, this might be just a review for you. Download 98.1 MB Download (iphone & ipod) 51.5 MB

Background Processes with Ruby

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2009/12/21

Learn how to spawn background processes using Ruby and the Process class. Here we discuss the difference between 'wait' and 'detach'. Download 68.4 MB Download (iphone & ipod) 24 MB

Writing CSS with LESS – Part 2

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2009/12/17

In this screencast we'll cover using variables, mixins and operations with LESS while building the header for the our Flitter front end. In this screencast we'll cover using variables, mixins and operations with LESS while building the header for the Flitter front end. Download 89.1 Download (iphone & ipod) 50.4

Writing CSS with LESS – Part 1

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2009/12/14

In this screencast we'll cover the basics of setting up a LESS file to compile into CSS as we provide an HTML front end to Flitter, a Ruby on Rails Twitter clone. Download 55.1 MB Download (iphone & ipod) 30 MB

Bash Command Line Editing

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2009/12/12

Tim Harper (tim.theenchanter.com) presents a 13 minute tour of some of his favorite bash features that he uses on a daily basis. The font size is tiny, so be sure to watch it in full screen. Download 44 Download (iphone & ipod) 48

Introduction to MongoDB – Part III, MongoMapper & Rails

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2009/12/07

This is the third and final episode on introduction to MongDB. In this screencast, we demonstrate MongoMapper and how to use it in a Rails app. Download 21.8 MB Download (iphone & ipod) 9.5 MB

jQuery Masonry

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2009/12/02

In this screencast we'll cover aligning floated elements on an HTML page using jQuery, the jQuery Masonry plugin and CSS. Download 83 MB Download (iphone & ipod) 55 MB

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