PayPal, love it or hate it, is easiest way to send and receive money online. In this screencast we go through how to create a Buy Now button, which use...

Rails 2.3.3 brings us a new feature called "touch". See how to use this to auto-expire associated caches in this episode.

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.

Learn how to apply OpenID to an existing Authlogic setup as I show in this episode. This builds upon the app from episode 160.

Use JavaScript to allow dynamic content in a page cache. In this episode I show you how to insert the user-specific content into a page through JavaScript.

Learn two different techniques for parsing an RSS feed using Feedzirra in this episode!

Use a virtual attribute to implement a simple tagging feature. In this episode I show you how to assign virtual attributes through a callback instead of a setter method

Rails 2.3 shipped with Rack support and contains a set of middleware libraries which can be used to customize and optimize your Rails application. In this screencast we go over the basics of Rack & Rack Middleware, walk through the Rails Rack stack, and show how to optimize certain actions in your Ra...

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

Rob Kaufman demonstrates Tanning Bed, his new Solr search mixin for any Ruby class. Tanning Bed makes fewer assumptions about how you want to deal with...

Let's face it. Migrating legacy data into a new app is a giant pain in the ass. It's slow, error prone, and a ton of work.

What if you could...

Guyren Howe is doing something a little different with his current project, trying to make it more user-modifiable and user friendly than your average ...