Authentication can get very complex. In this episode I show how Authlogic can handle this complexity while you stay in control of how it is presented to the user.

There is a lot more to Cucumber than I showed in an earlier episode. See how to refactor complex scenarios in this episode.

Fixtures are external dependencies which can make tests brittle and difficult to read. In this episode I show a better alternative using factories to generate the needed records.

You can improve the readability and remove duplication in RSpec by adding matchers and macros. Learn how in this episode.

If you prefer writing integration tests in ruby instead of Cucumber's plain english, consider interacting with Webrat directly as I show in this episode.

Jim Gochee is the VP of Engineering at New Relic, where he's helped shape RPM, their server monitoring tool. After asking him his recommendations for Scaling Rails, we take a closer look at some of the advanced features of New Relic's RPM tool. If you haven't seen some of the upper tier performance m...

Jesse Newland works at Rails Machine, where he's helped scale many Rails applications. In this episode we ask him for 3 tips to help us Scale our applications. We're then going to take a closer look at one of his recommendations: how to properly deploy a Rails app.

Cucumber is a high-level testing framework. In this episode we will create a new Rails application from scratch using behavior driven development.

Polymorphic associations can be perplexing. In this episode I show you how to set it up in Active Record and then move to the controller and view layer.

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

This episode finishes up this series on Rails 2.3. Here you will learn about several smaller additions in 2.3

Rack middleware is a way to filter a request and response coming into your application. In this episode I show how to modify the response body using middleware