RailsCasts

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#36 Subversion on Rails May 25, 2007

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This episode will walk you through setting up a Rails project on subversion. It covers some helpful tips and gotchas you may experience along the way.

#35 Custom REST Actions May 23, 2007

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REST adds many constraints. It restricts your controllers to seven actions. Normally this is okay, but sometimes you need to add your own custom actions. Learn how in this episode.

#34 Named Routes May 21, 2007

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When you add a custom route, make it a named route so you have url helper methods to easily link to that new route. See episode for details.

#33 Making a Plugin May 18, 2007

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You can sometimes remove a lot of duplication by generating methods dynamic. In this episode I will show you how to create a plugin which does exactly that.

#32 Time in Text Field May 16, 2007

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Although Rails does allow you to edit time attributes with text fields, it's not very flexible. In this episode you will learn how to use a virtual attribute to format the time to your liking.

#31 Formatting Time May 14, 2007

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Learn how to use the trusty strftime method to format a time, and see how Rails allows you to save this format for later use.

#30 Pretty Page Title May 11, 2007

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If you are like me, you avoid creating page titles because it is kind of a pain. But in this episode I will show you a clean way to add titles to your pages.

#29 group_by Month May 09, 2007

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Learn how to use the very useful group_by method to group an array by anything you want! In this episode I group an array of tasks by month then sort it properly.

#28 in_groups_of May 07, 2007

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Have you ever wanted to visually line up items in rows and columns? The in_groups_of method makes this a cinch. Just watch out for the gotcha.

#27 Cross Site Scripting May 04, 2007

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Another common security issue is cross site scripting. In this episode you will see why it is so important to escape any HTML a user may submit.