Recent Episodes
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Polling For Changes
If you have frequently changing data on the server side, it's helpful to automatically display this to the user as well. Here I show how to accomplish this with polling in jQuery.
Tags: ajax
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Sortable Table Columns
In this episode we show you how to make a table of items sortable by clicking on links in the header cells.
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Upgrading to Rails 3 Part 3
In this episode we finish up this upgrade series by removing all deprecation warnings and fixing some problems in the view.
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Upgrading to Rails 3 Part 2 Other translations:
Here we continue upgrading an application to Rails 3 by getting our specs up and running and going through the rails_upgrade plugin.
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Upgrading to Rails 3 Part 1 Other translations:
In the first part of this series on upgrading a Rails 2 application to Rails 3, we'll start off by setting up Rails 3.0 Release Candidate in a clean environment. The rails_upgrade plugin will then help us determine what needs upgrading.
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Controllers in Rails 3 Other translations:
This episode covers changes to controllers in Rails 3 including embedded flash notices, permanent cookies and respond_with.
Tags: rails-30 controllers
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Charts Other translations:
There are a number of JavaScript charting libraries available. In this episode we use Highchart in a Rails application.
Tags: views performance
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Rack in Rails 3 Other translations:
The router in Rails 3 is fully compatible with Rack. Learn how to embed Sinatra into an app, handle redirects, and improve on Rails Metal.
Tags: rails-30 routing performance
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Subdomains in Rails 3 Other translations:
It is now possible to add subdomains to Rails 3 without the use of additional plugins. Learn how in this episode.
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PDFkit Other translations:
Generating PDFs in plain Ruby can be a lot of work. Instead, consider generating PDFs from HTML using PDFKit.