Recent Episodes
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175
AJAX History and Bookmarks Other translations:
AJAX-enabled sites do not usually play well with bookmarking or the brower's page history. In this episode we fix that with a simple jQuery plugin.
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174
Pagination With AJAX Other translations:
Use jQuery to add unobtrusive JavaScript links to a paginated list.
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173
Screen Scraping With ScrAPI
Screen scraping is sometimes the only way to get data from another website. This episode uses scrAPI to fetch prices from another site.
Tags: plugins
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172
Touch and Cache Other translations:
Rails 2.3.3 has a new feature called 'touch'. In this episode we use it to auto-expire associated caches.
Tags: performance caching rails-23
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171
Delayed Job Other translations:
The delayed_job plugin provides an excellent way of getting long running tasks running in the background.
Tags: plugins
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170
OpenID With Authlogic
This episode extends the appication built in episode 160 and shows how to add OpenID support to a Ralis application that uses Authlogic.
Tags: authentication plugins
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169
Dynamic Page Caching Other translations:
Use a combination of page caching and JavaScript to create a fast cached page that can still be updated dynamically.
Tags: caching performance ajax administration
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168
Feed Parsing Other translations:
In this episode we use two different techniques to parse an RSS feed with Feedzirra.
Tags: plugins active-record
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167
More on Virtual Attributes Other translations:
Make use of virtual attributes and callbacks to implement tagging in a blogging application.
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166
Metric Fu
Metric Fu is a compliation of tools that help you find the places in your code that need improvement. See what they have to say about the Railscasts codebase.