In many ways irb is to Ruby what IPython is to Python. Irb is a interactive shell for the Ruby language that allows you to test your code and make sure...

These three screencasts are the original three videos which helped spark the Ruby on Rails phenomenon. Learn here how to write a blog in just 15 minute...

This 10 minute demo shows how easy it is to install Ruby, Rails, Apache, Mongrel, Subversion, and MySQL on an Ubuntu server. Capistrano and the deprec ...

Let Ryan Bates take you through a growing series of great Rails tips.

Let Ryan Bates take you through a growing series of great Rails tips.

Let Ryan Bates take you through a growing series of great Rails tips.

If you want to change something in the layout on a per-template basis, content_for is your answer! This allows templates to specify view code that can be placed anywhere in a layout.

Everything you wanted to know about layouts: global layouts, controller layouts, shared layouts, dynamic layouts and action layouts. Yes, there really are that many ways to specify a layout.

It may have a goofy syntax, but the Symbol#to_proc feature Rails adds allows you to do simple blocks very quickly and easily

Learn how to use with_scope - a very powerful method which will allow your custom find methods to accept any find options. Just like magic!