Rob Kaufman talks about using ActionMailer safely, how to keep out of the spam box and how to test your emails before your customers see them.

Kevin Clark takes a break from Powerset to give a full-throttle talk on using Merb as a JSON-RPC service, god, gem2rpm, and heckle.

Matt Aimonetti demonstrates his newest plugins: ActiveRecord Backup and MimetypeFu.

Ryan Felton shows how to use Simple Sidebar plugin to DRY up sidebar content in applications.

Patrick Crowley talks about his newest plugins: Headliner and Styler.

Rob Kaufman shows how easy it is to integrate Solr powered search into your Rails application using the ActsAsSolr plugin.

Ryan Felton shows off how to build an Ajax-powered, CSS star rater using the ActsAsRateable plugin and Komodo Media’s CSS Star Rating Redux technique

Jordan Fowler gives a presentation on Amazon’s S3 service. He also covers the AWS::S3 gem written by Marcel Molina Jr.

In today’s episode, Patrick Crowley introduces his first Rails plugin titled ActsNaked. It’s an easy way to “strip your models and keep them DRY.”

Patrick Crowley discusses his experiences with acts_as_taggable. He starts off outlining some of the differences between the gem and the plugin. Patric...

Want to create a Ruby Gem instead of a Rails plugin? In this episode I will walk you through creating a gem to extend Rails.

Creating a custom daemon to handle background tasks is surprisingly simple. In this episode I will make a daemon to handle dynamically scheduled tasks.