In keeping up with our framework lessons, I selected two new scaffolding frameworks that add tons of cool AJAX and datagrid and scaffolding goodness to your applications with only a couple of commands! They are ActiveScaffold (formerly AjaxScaffold) and Streamlined. For a bonus, I also provide you with a sneak peak at another scaffolding framework called Auto-Admin.

Did you know that Ruby supports multi-threading natively? Check out these quick couple of steps needed to thread your Ruby applications!

Today's Rubyology podcast covers a powerful, up and coming new development framework called Hobo. This new plugin can be found at HoboCentral.net. It sits on top of the Rails framework and includes user role management and AJAX and slick stylesheets built-in allowing you to create a full-featured web application in minutes - no joke!

Today we cover Why The Lucky Stiff's Camping framework for Ruby. This is the tiny little framework (4KB size) that could. This amazing little application supports databases and allows you to quickly build small web-based applications with a 1 file distro.

What is YAML? YAML = YAML Aint Markup Language! YAML is great for quickly exporting and importing data to and from your Ruby application. There seem to be many pros and cons on when to use YAML vs. XML. My rule of thumb is to use YAML when everything is controlled by your application. Use XML is you intend to transfer data outside of your application.

Hey fellow code monkeys! Today we are going to introduce you to Adobe's Flex data services and XML-RPC followed by a quick explanation of the podcasting website that I built my wife this week called SpaTada.com.

Before SOAP and REST, there were Remote Procedure Calls. Ruby ships with native RPC support and I'll show you how to built powerful remote API queries with 3 lines of Ruby code!

This screen cast demonstrates credit card validation within a Ruby application. It uses the credit card library from Lucas Carlson. This library validates the structure of a credit card number and can also return the type of card being used.

Alright code monkeys - push away your keyboards and grab your coffee. I'm going to need your full attention on this podcast! Today we will be covering the new REST (Representational State Transfer) features of Rails 1.2.x. This new methodology creates a powerful, new multi-modal solution that will further propel our web development innovations!

Today's screencast will demonstrate 2 forms of cryptography: 1) 1-way hashing 2) 2-way encryption/decryption For the hashing, we will be using the SHA1 method and for the encryption, we will be using AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) with 128 bit encryption.