The latest episodes from ASCIIcasts http://asciicasts.com/ Sun, 11 Mar 2012 21:57:25 +0000 1440 If you are tired of the browser vendor prefixes in CSS, take a look at Bourbon. It provides Sass mixins and functions to make CSS more convenient. Sun, 11 Mar 2012 21:57:22 +0000 http://asciicasts.com/episodes/330-better-sass-with-bourbon http://asciicasts.com/episodes/330-better-sass-with-bourbon Twitter Bootstrap can help make beautiful web apps quickly by providing you with useful CSS and JavaScript. Here you will learn how to include it into Rails with the twitter-bootstrap-rails gem. Sun, 04 Mar 2012 17:10:27 +0000 http://asciicasts.com/episodes/328-twitter-bootstrap-basics http://asciicasts.com/episodes/328-twitter-bootstrap-basics ActiveAttr provides what Active Model left out. If you need to create a table-less model with features similar to Active Record, read this episode. Sat, 25 Feb 2012 20:00:46 +0000 http://asciicasts.com/episodes/326-activeattr http://asciicasts.com/episodes/326-activeattr There are a variety of ways to pass variables from a Rails application to JavaScript. Here we show three techniques: a script tag, a data attribute, and the Gon gem. Sun, 19 Feb 2012 18:34:51 +0000 http://asciicasts.com/episodes/324-passing-data-to-javascript http://asciicasts.com/episodes/324-passing-data-to-javascript 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