RailsCasts

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#156 Webrat Apr 06, 2009

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If you prefer writing integration tests in ruby instead of Cucumber's plain english, consider interacting with Webrat directly as I show in this episode.

#155 Beginning with Cucumber Mar 30, 2009

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Cucumber is a high-level testing framework. In this episode we will create a new Rails application from scratch using behavior driven development.

#154 Polymorphic Association Mar 23, 2009

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Polymorphic associations can be perplexing. In this episode I show you how to set it up in Active Record and then move to the controller and view layer.

#153 PDFs with Prawn Mar 16, 2009

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Prawn is an excellent Ruby library for generating PDF documents. Learn how to use it along with the Prawnto plugin in this episode.

#152 Rails 2.3 Extras Mar 09, 2009

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This episode finishes up this series on Rails 2.3. Here you will learn about several smaller additions in 2.3.

#151 Rack Middleware Mar 02, 2009

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Rack middleware is a way to filter a request and response coming into your application. In this episode I show how to modify the response body using middleware.

#150 Rails Metal Feb 23, 2009

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Rails Metal is a way to bypass the standard Rails request process for a performance boost. In this episode you will learn how to shave off a few milliseconds using Metal.

#149 Rails Engines Feb 16, 2009

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Rails 2.3 brings us much of the same functionality as the Rails Engines plugin. Learn how to embed one application into another in this episode.

#148 App Templates in Rails 2.3 Feb 09, 2009

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In Rails 2.3 you can provide a template when generating a new Rails application. See how in this episode.

#147 Sortable Lists Feb 02, 2009

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Creating drag & drop sortable lists is fairly easy using Prototype and the built in helper methods. See how in this episode.