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November 30, 2009 Introduction to MongoDB – Part II
This is the second part of the series on MongoDB. In this screencast, we create a small Sinatra app called YASI that accesses the data using MongoDB. Get the code at http://blog.rubyhead.com/files/yasi.zip
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November 22, 2009 Introduction to MongoDB – Part I
In this screencast, you will see the basic CRUD operation using MongoDB shell. This is the first installment of a series on MongoDB.
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November 15, 2009 Creating a Twitter Clone in Rails – Part 6
In this concluding episode, we go over how to add search functionality to our Flitter application, and add a 'follow / unfollow' button which uses AJAX. This is the last of the 6-part series on how to create a Twitter Clone using Ruby on Rails.
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November 14, 2009 Monitor Twitter with Ruby and Growl
As I run the final stretch to see if I can get a RubyConf ticket, I decided to create a little tool to help me out. If you visit http://search.twitter.com, you will see that they have a search page that auto updates when new tweets have been posted with certain keywords. I can't watch the site all day, so I decided to write a little tool that will flash the messages on my screen using Growl. Here's how I did it.
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November 14, 2009 Creating a Twitter Clone in Rails – Part 5
The saga continues. Here we learn how to add the friends list to your application and we use AJAX to add/remove friends.
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November 09, 2009 Creating a Twitter Clone in Rails – Part 4
We're almost done! The remaining screencasts are already recorded, but not edited yet. To speed things up, I split it up into 3 or 4 screencasts. This one shows how to make the site look and feel like Twitter and also populates the right side column content. A bit of CSS, lots of Rails, and more of my ramblings :D
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November 04, 2009 Styleize your Rails App with Themes
Don't want to take the time to create a layout for your new Ruby on Rails application? Don't worry. Use the Themes plugin! In this screencast, I show you how to easily add a layout with built-in menus to your existing Rails application using only 1 line of code.
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October 21, 2009 Easy Rails Runner Application
Have you ever wanted to run a script or command from the command line and insert data into your rails application?, watch this this screencast and you will see the basics of how to interact with your rails application, starting from the irb ruby shell to the usage of the rails console and entering data into a rails application form a Linux shell prompt using the runner.
To ilustrate this screencasts some basic ruby scripts are used to generate our base of characters for a very simple dictionary generation using nested blocks.
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October 19, 2009 Creating a Twitter Clone in Rails – Part 3
In this screencast, we continue our challenge of creating a Twitter clone called 'Flitter' using Ruby on Rails. We learn how to use jQuery to create a countdown for the text area box. We also set up adding and removing friends via the interface. Oh... you hear my baby cry and my sister-in-law call. Fun stuff :D
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October 11, 2009 Creating a Twitter Clone in Rails – Part 2
Now that we have a backbone to our 'Flitter' application, we learn how to create the front end and tie it all together. In this screencast, I cover a lot of CSS and getting your site to look good. I apologize for it lasting 1 hour, but I decided it's better than chopping it up.
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