RailsCasts

Ryan Bates

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 is the full resolution version, a lower reoslution for mobile devices is also available.

  • 11 minutes 6 seconds
    #417 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.
    16 June 2013, 7:00 am
  • 12 minutes 44 seconds
    #415 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.
    6 May 2013, 7:00 am
  • 8 minutes 6 seconds
    #412 Fast Rails Commands
    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.
    4 April 2013, 7:00 am
  • 10 minutes 58 seconds
    #409 Active Model Serializers
    The ActiveModel::Serializers gem can help you build JSON APIs through serializer objects. This provides a dedicated place to fully customize the JSON output.
    9 March 2013, 8:00 am
  • 10 minutes 59 seconds
    #406 Public Activity
    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.
    13 February 2013, 8:00 am
  • 8 minutes 6 seconds
    #402 Better Errors & RailsPanel
    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.
    25 January 2013, 8:00 am
  • 20 minutes 23 seconds
    #400 What's New in Rails 4
    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.
    4 January 2013, 8:00 am
  • 10 minutes 19 seconds
    #396 Importing CSV and Excel
    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.
    8 December 2012, 8:00 am
  • 9 minutes 27 seconds
    #393 Guest User Record
    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.
    21 November 2012, 8:00 am
  • 7 minutes 45 seconds
    #390 Turbolinks
    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.
    5 November 2012, 8:00 am
  • 7 minutes 39 seconds
    #387 Cache Digests
    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!
    20 October 2012, 7:00 am
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