The latest episodes from ASCIIcasts http://asciicasts.com/ Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:05:14 +0000 1440 With the release of OmniAuth 1.0 there is a new Identity strategy which allows users to register/login with a password if they don't want to use an external provider. Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:04:39 +0000 http://asciicasts.com/episodes/304-omniauth-identity http://asciicasts.com/episodes/304-omniauth-identity Edit an attribute in-place without leaving a page using the Best In Place gem. Learn how to add validations and support for various field types. Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:53:45 +0000 http://asciicasts.com/episodes/302-in-place-editing http://asciicasts.com/episodes/302-in-place-editing GitHub makes it easier than ever to contribute to open source with pull requests. Here we show how to submit a pull request to the VCR project. Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:41:57 +0000 http://asciicasts.com/episodes/300-contributing-to-open-source http://asciicasts.com/episodes/300-contributing-to-open-source Spree allows you to quickly turn a Rails project into a full eCommerce application. Here we show how to set it up and configure the look and feel of the store. Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:27:56 +0000 http://asciicasts.com/episodes/298-getting-started-with-spree http://asciicasts.com/episodes/298-getting-started-with-spree Mercury allows you to edit a section of HTML directly in the web browser through a WISYIWYG editor. Here we show how to integrate Mercury into a Rails app and save the changes back to the database. Thu, 10 Nov 2011 23:21:33 +0000 http://asciicasts.com/episodes/296-mercury-editor http://asciicasts.com/episodes/296-mercury-editor PJAX allows you to quickly update a section of a page using AJAX with automatic pushState support. Here we show how to use both pjax_rails and rack-pjax gems. Thu, 10 Nov 2011 23:04:12 +0000 http://asciicasts.com/episodes/294-playing-with-pjax http://asciicasts.com/episodes/294-playing-with-pjax Vagrant allows you to run your Rails application and all of its dependencies in a portable, sharable environment. Use for development, set it up as a staging server, or experiment with a production setup. Sun, 30 Oct 2011 10:54:48 +0000 http://asciicasts.com/episodes/292-virtual-machines-with-vagrant http://asciicasts.com/episodes/292-virtual-machines-with-vagrant Communicating with a SOAP API can be a daunting task. Savon makes this easier by presenting the SOAP API through a Ruby interface. Sun, 30 Oct 2011 10:33:51 +0000 http://asciicasts.com/episodes/290-soap-with-savon http://asciicasts.com/episodes/290-soap-with-savon Stripe is a full-stack payment solution with very reasonable pricing and is easy to setup. See how to add it to a Rails application here. Currently only available in the US. Fri, 14 Oct 2011 12:59:53 +0000 http://asciicasts.com/episodes/288-billing-with-stripe http://asciicasts.com/episodes/288-billing-with-stripe Clean up complex view logic using Draper. This gem provides decorators (much like presenters) which bundles view logic in an object oriented fashion. In this episode we do a step-by-step refactoring of a complex template into a decorator. Wed, 05 Oct 2011 17:42:31 +0000 http://asciicasts.com/episodes/286-draper http://asciicasts.com/episodes/286-draper