App Templates in Rails 2.3
Category: Web Development > Ruby On Rails      Posted: 19 Feb 09

In Rails 2.3 you can provide a template when generating a new Rails application. See how in this episode

Sortable Lists
Category: Web Development > Ruby On Rails      Posted: 02 Feb 09

Creating drag & drop sortable lists is fairly easy using Prototype and the built in helper methods. See how in this episode.

PayPal Express Checkout
Category: Web Development > Ruby On Rails      Posted: 02 Feb 09

PayPal Express Checkout is easy to add to an existing ordering system. See how in this episode

Integrating Active Merchant
Category: Web Development > Ruby On Rails      Posted: 02 Feb 09

In this episode I show how to add Active Merchant's functionality to a Rails application to make a fully-functional checkout process.

Active Merchant Basics
Category: Web Development > Ruby On Rails      Posted: 02 Feb 09

Active Merchant is a great library for handling credit card transactions. In this episode I will show you the basics of using it to communicate with PayPal's gateway.

PayPal Security
Category: Web Development > Ruby On Rails      Posted: 02 Feb 09

This episode shows how to encrypt the variables passed to PayPal and verify the authenticity of the payment notifications (IPN).

PayPal Notifications
Category: Web Development > Ruby On Rails      Posted: 02 Feb 09

PayPal's IPN (Instant Payment Notification) service allows your app to get confirmation when an order is processed. In this episode I use IPN to mark a cart as purchased

PayPal Basics
Category: Web Development > Ruby On Rails      Posted: 02 Feb 09

This episode is the first in a series on handling the checkout process for orders. Here we show how to complete purchases through PayPal's Website Payments Standard service

Rails 2.2 Extras
Category: Web Development > Ruby On Rails      Posted: 02 Feb 09

This episode finishes up the Rails 2.2 series by showing a few miscellaneous additions that I find useful.

Nested Resources
Category: Web Development > Ruby On Rails      Posted: 09 Dec 08

In this episode I show how to nest resources through routing and go into some new additions in Rails 2.2

I18n - Internationalization
Category: Web Development > Ruby On Rails      Posted: 09 Dec 08

Internationalization is one of the biggest additions in Rails 2.2. See how the basics work in this episode.

Memoization
Category: Web Development > Ruby On Rails      Posted: 09 Dec 08

Rails 2.2 is out! In this episode I show how to upgrade Rails and then demonstrate one of the new additions: Memoization.