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

Brian Chapados talks about using Ruby and Amazon’s Simple Que Service web service to build backdoors into systems

Nick Zadrozny shows us how to use C in Ruby with RubyInline. As an example, Nick walks us through writing a password-generating application with the he...

DRP stands for Directed Ruby Programming. In this episode, Warren Henning explains exactly what that means and why you might be interested in it.

Chris Van Pelt gives us an introduction to Merb. Merb is a Ruby framework built by Ezra Zygmuntowicz.

In this episode, Tom Werner covers some of the basics of the ruby image library ImageScience. ImageScience is a wrapper for the FreeImage graphics libr...

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

In this episode, Toby Sterrett gives us an update on his soon-to-be-released project StaffTool. StaffTool is a web-based church management application ...

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.”

Deb Lewis showcases her project MasterView. MasterView is a template language for Rails.

Patrick Crowley covers some of the finer point of using Rails with legacy applications.