Recent Episodes
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10
Refactoring User Name Part 1
This episode will show you how to move code from the view into the model to reduce duplication and clean up the view.
Tags: refactoring
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9
Filtering Sensitive Logs
By default, Rails stores sensitive data in its log files. Find out how to filter it out.
Tags: security
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8
Layouts and content_for
content_for allows you to change your layouts on a per-template basis.
Tags: views
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7
All About Layouts
Everything you ever wanted to know about layouts.
Tags: views
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6
Shortcut Blocks with Symbol to_proc
The Symbol#to_proc feature in Rails allows you do do simple blocks quickly and easily.
Tags: active-support
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5
Using with_scope
Learn how to use with_scope - a very powerful method which will allow your custom find method to acceps any find options.
Tags: active-record
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4
Move Find Into Model
Clean up your controllers and remove duplication by moving a find into your model. Use an association to call custom find methods.
Tags: active-record
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3
Find Through Association
Use a has_many association in a find to avoid the need to pass foreign keys.
Tags: active-record
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2
Dynamic find_by Methods
Shorten simple find and improve readability by using the dynamic find_by and find_all_by methods.
Tags: active-record
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Caching With Instance Variables.
Store the result of an expensive command in an instance variable to improve performance.
Tags: performance caching