Is there a long running task which should be handled in the background? One of the best ways is using the delayed_job plugin like I show in this episode.

Despite an extensive codex, many WordPress users remain unfamiliar with how to create their own custom plugins. In today's screencast, we'll start from...

Jim Rea will demonstrate Track Magic, a plugin for Panorama that allows Rails developers to interact directly with Rails databases on the desktop witho...

Michael Madrid discusses Styleact (a Facebook application) and how to develop Facebook apps using Ruby on Rails and the Facebooker plugin.

Patrick Crowley talks about Paperclip, a lightweight plugin for handling attachments.

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

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.

This week, we'll learn how to combine PHP, SimplePie, and jQuery to build a simple news scroller widget for your website. It's much easier than you mig...

It's tough. You read tutorial after tutorial, but they all assume that you know more than you actually do. By the time you're finished, you're left fee...

Today, we'll be featuring the winner of our "Screencast Competition". Created by James Padolsey, this video tutorial will demonstrate how to build a re...

Prawn is an excellent Ruby library for generating PDF documents. Learn how to use it along with the Prawnto plugin in this episode.

jCrop is a fantastic jQuery plugin that allows your users to easily crop their photos to the exact dimensions that they choose. Setting up such a syste...