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**RailsCasts**

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.

Latest Episodes:

#136 jQuery Nov 17, 2008

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How do you use jQuery with Rails? In this episode I redo episode #43 using jQuery instead of Prototype/RJS.

#135 Making a Gem Nov 10, 2008

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Want to create a Ruby Gem instead of a Rails plugin? In this episode I will walk you through creating a gem to extend Rails.

#134 Paperclip Nov 03, 2008

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Need to add image attachments to a model? See how with paperclip in this episode.

#133 Capistrano Tasks Oct 27, 2008

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Do you know how to make Capistrano tasks? See how to change default deployment behavior with custom tasks in this episode.

#132 Helpers Outside Views Oct 20, 2008

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Have you ever wanted to access helper methods outside of the view layer? In this episode I show you a couple ways to do just that.

#131 Going Back Oct 12, 2008

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This episode demonstrates a couple ways to redirect the user back to a previous page. Applying this to your site can help minimize the user's need to press the back button.

#130 Monitoring with God Oct 05, 2008

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Need to ensure your background processes stay up and running and don't use too many resources? Check out the god gem as shown in this episode.

#129 Custom Daemon Sep 29, 2008

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Creating a custom daemon to handle background tasks is surprisingly simple. In this episode I will make a daemon to handle dynamically scheduled tasks.

#128 Starling and Workling Sep 22, 2008

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Need to run a task frequently in the background? Starling and Workling is a killer combination for doing just that. See how in this episode.

#127 Rake in Background Sep 15, 2008

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In need of a background process? You may be able to accomplish this with a simple Rake task. See how in this episode.