The latest episodes from ASCIIcasts http://asciicasts.com/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:44:05 +0000 1440 Use jQuery to add unobtrusive JavaScript links to a paginated list. Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:46:28 +0000 http://asciicasts.com/episodes/174-pagination-with-ajax http://asciicasts.com/episodes/174-pagination-with-ajax Screen scraping is sometimes the only way to get data from another website. This episode uses scrAPI to fetch prices from another site. Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:46:28 +0000 http://asciicasts.com/episodes/173-screen-scraping-with-scrapi http://asciicasts.com/episodes/173-screen-scraping-with-scrapi Rails 2.3.3 has a new feature called 'touch'. In this episode we use it to auto-expire associated caches. Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:46:28 +0000 http://asciicasts.com/episodes/172-touch-and-cache http://asciicasts.com/episodes/172-touch-and-cache The delayed_job plugin provides an excellent way of getting long running tasks running in the background. Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:46:28 +0000 http://asciicasts.com/episodes/171-delayed-job http://asciicasts.com/episodes/171-delayed-job This episode extends the appication built in episode 160 and shows how to add OpenID support to a Ralis application that uses Authlogic. Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:46:28 +0000 http://asciicasts.com/episodes/170-openid-with-authlogic http://asciicasts.com/episodes/170-openid-with-authlogic Use a combination of page caching and JavaScript to create a fast cached page that can still be updated dynamically. Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:46:28 +0000 http://asciicasts.com/episodes/169-dynamic-page-caching http://asciicasts.com/episodes/169-dynamic-page-caching In this episode we use two different techniques to parse an RSS feed with Feedzirra. Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:46:28 +0000 http://asciicasts.com/episodes/168-feed-parsing http://asciicasts.com/episodes/168-feed-parsing Make use of virtual attributes and callbacks to implement tagging in a blogging application. Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:46:28 +0000 http://asciicasts.com/episodes/167-more-on-virtual-attributes http://asciicasts.com/episodes/167-more-on-virtual-attributes 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. Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:46:28 +0000 http://asciicasts.com/episodes/166-metric-fu http://asciicasts.com/episodes/166-metric-fu Select multiple records with checkboxes and edit them all on one form. Find out how to use virtual attributes to update values relatively. Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:46:28 +0000 http://asciicasts.com/episodes/165-edit-multiple http://asciicasts.com/episodes/165-edit-multiple