RailsCasts

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#216 Generators in Rails 3 May 31, 2010

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Generators in Rails 3 have been completely rewritten to be more modular. This allows you to customize any generator to fit your specific preferences.

#215 Advanced Queries in Rails 3 May 24, 2010

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Learn some advanced techniques regarding named scopes and get an introduction to Arel in this episode.

#214 A/B Testing with A/Bingo May 17, 2010

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A/B Testing (or Split Testing) is a way to experiment with variations in an application to see the most effective option.

#213 Calendars May 10, 2010

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If dates play an important role in your application, consider adding a date picker or calendar view as shown in this episode.

#212 Refactoring & Dynamic Delegator May 03, 2010

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Learn how to refactor a set of conditional Active Record queries using a Dynamic Delegator.

#211 Validations in Rails 3 Apr 26, 2010

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Rails 3 offers several new additions to validations. Here learn how to make a custom error_messages partial, reflect on validations, and clean up complex validations in a model.

#210 Customizing Devise Apr 19, 2010

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Here we dive deeper into Devise by customizing how the views, routing, validations, and authentication works.

#209 Introducing Devise Apr 12, 2010

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Devise is a full-featured authentication solution which handles all of the controller logic and form views for you. Learn how to set it up in this episode.

#208 ERB Blocks in Rails 3 Apr 05, 2010

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Blocks in ERB templates are handled differently in Rails 3.0 Beta 2. Learn all about it in this episode.

#207 Syntax Highlighting Mar 29, 2010

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Here I talk about three popular choices for syntax highlighting in Rails: CodeRay, Ultraviolet and Pygments.