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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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11:06

#417 Foundation

RailsCasts (Mobile) ·

2013/06/16

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.

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12:44

#415 Upgrading to Rails 4

RailsCasts (Mobile) ·

2013/05/06

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.

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8:06

#412 Fast Rails Commands

RailsCasts (Mobile) ·

2013/04/04

Rails commands, such as generators, migrations, and tests, have a tendency to be slow because they need to load the Rails app each time. Here I show three tools to make this faster: Zeus, Spring, and Commands.

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10:58

#409 Active Model Serializers

RailsCasts (Mobile) ·

2013/03/09

The ActiveModel::Serializers gem can help you build JSON APIs through serializer objects. This provides a dedicated place to fully customize the JSON output.

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10:59

#406 Public Activity

RailsCasts (Mobile) ·

2013/02/13

Learn how to easily add a user activity feed using the public_activity gem. Here I show both the default setup using model callbacks and a manual way to trigger activities.

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8:06

#402 Better Errors & RailsPanel

RailsCasts (Mobile) ·

2013/01/25

Here we take a look at two tools to aid us in development: Better Errors which makes it easier than ever to debug exceptions, and RailsPanel, a Chrome extension to see Rails requests.

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20:23

#400 What's New in Rails 4

RailsCasts (Mobile) ·

2013/01/04

Rails 4.0 is still unfinished, but it is shaping up to become a great release. Here I show how to setup a new Rails 4.0 (edge) application and walk through many of its new features.

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10:19

#396 Importing CSV and Excel

RailsCasts (Mobile) ·

2012/12/08

Allow users to import records into the database by uploading a CSV or Excel document. Here I show how to use Roo to parse these files and present a solution for validations.

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9:27

#393 Guest User Record

RailsCasts (Mobile) ·

2012/11/21

Instead of presenting a sign up form to the user, consider creating a temporary guest record so the user can try out the application without filling in their information up front. They can then become a permanent member afterwards.

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7:45

#390 Turbolinks

RailsCasts (Mobile) ·

2012/11/05

Turbolinks can make your Rails app feel faster by using JavaScript to replace the page content when clicking a link. It will be default in new Rails 4.0 applications, but here I show how to use it in Rails 3 and mention some of the gotchas.

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7:39

#387 Cache Digests

RailsCasts (Mobile) ·

2012/10/20

The cache_digests gem (also included in Rails 4) will automatically add a digest to the fragment cache key based on the template. If a template changes the cache will auto-expire. But watch out for the gotchas!

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7:20

#384 Exploring RubyGems

RailsCasts (Mobile) ·

2012/10/07

RubyGems can make it easy to add a feature to a Rails application, but it can also cause headaches down the road. Here I give some tips on researching gems to decide which one to choose, or when to do it from scratch.

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11:03

#382 Tagging

RailsCasts (Mobile) ·

2012/09/22

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.

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10:04

#378 FnordMetric

RailsCasts (Mobile) ·

2012/09/04

FnordMetric allows you to chart events in real time. This is great for keeping track of user activity in your Rails app as demonstrated in this episode.

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10:47

#376 JRuby Basics

RailsCasts (Mobile) ·

2012/08/30

JRuby is a polished and stable Ruby implementation. Here I show the basics of setting it up and executing Java from within Ruby. I also see how it compares with MRI at running threads.

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11:23

#374 Image Manipulation

RailsCasts (Mobile) ·

2012/08/16

Learn how to do extensive image manipulation with the ImageMagick commands. Also learn how RMagick can be used in combination with CarrierWave to process uploaded images.

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6:20

#372 Bullet

RailsCasts (Mobile) ·

2012/08/09

Bullet will notify you of database queries that can potentially be improved through eager loading or counter cache column. A variety of notification alerts are supported.

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10:18

#370 Ransack

RailsCasts (Mobile) ·

2012/08/03

Ransack allows you to easily build complex search forms. It also helps in adding sortable links and building a dynamic advanced search page.

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9:03

#368 MiniProfiler

RailsCasts (Mobile) ·

2012/07/24

MiniProfiler allows you to see the speed of a request conveniently on the page. It also shows the SQL queries performed and allows you to profile a specific block of code.

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10:17

#366 Sidekiq

RailsCasts (Mobile) ·

2012/07/18

Sidekiq allows you to move jobs into the background for asynchronous processing. It uses threads instead of forks so it is much more efficient with memory compared to Resque.

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