RailsCasts (Mobile)

RailsCasts (Mobile)

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RailsCasts (Mobile) episodes

  • #166 Metric Fu
    Metric Fu is a compilation of several tools to help find areas of code that could be improved. In this episode I show you how to setup this tool on the railscasts.com source code.
    10 min
  • #165 Edit Multiple
    Use checkboxes to select multiple records and edit them all in one form as shown in this episode. With virtual attributes you can even edit values relatively!
    15 min
  • #164 Cron in Ruby
    Cron is great for handling recurring tasks, but it is an external dependency with a crazy syntax. In this episode I show you how to use Whenever to create cron jobs with Ruby.
    9 min
  • #163 Self-Referential Association
    Creating a social networking site often requires a self-referential association on the User model to define friends/followers. In this episode I show how to do exactly that.
    15 min
  • #162 Tree Based Navigation
    The acts_as_tree plugin provides many methods for handling a tree based association. In this episode I show how to build a navigation system with tabs, subpages, and breadcrumbs.
    12 min
  • #161 Three Profiling Tools
    Ever want to know what Rails is doing under the hood during a request? In this episode I show three different profiling tools: New Relic RPM, FiveRuns TuneUp, and Rack::Bug.
    8 min
  • #160 Authlogic
    Authentication can get very complex. In this episode I show how Authlogic can handle this complexity while you stay in control of how it is presented to the user.
    15 min
  • #158 Factories not Fixtures
    Fixtures are external dependencies which can make tests brittle and difficult to read. In this episode I show a better alternative using factories to generate the needed records.
    13 min

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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…