In the past, time zones have been very difficult to work with, but no longer! Rails 2.1 brings with it great time zone support as you can see in this episode.

Rails 2.1 Release Candidate 1 was just released! In this episode I will show you how to install it into your Rails project.

If you're running a production site, it's a good idea to record all exceptions which occur. See how to set up a notification system which does that in this episode.

Sometimes you need to display an administrative announcement to every page on the site and give the users the ability to hide the announcement. See how in this episode.

Usually a select menu is used for setting a belongs_to association, but in this episode I will show you how to use a text field with auto completion.

If you have complex view logic, this can easily lead to helper methods which call each other. See how to refactor this out into another object in this episode. This is also known as the presenter pattern.

Here's five quick tips to use in views. Be sure to catch the end of the episode where I reveal an exciting contest!

How do you handle partials which have differences depending on the action which is rendering them? Here's three suggestions for this problem.

You can use profiling to determine where the performance bottlenecks are in specific Rails actions. Watch this episode for details.

In order to improve performance of your Rails application you need to find the bottlenecks. A great starting point is your production log. In this episode you will see how to use RAWK to analyze your log file and determine which controller actions take up the most processing time.