Episodes tagged with “tools”
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141
PayPal Basics
The first of a series about dealing with taking payments on your site. Here we show you how to use PayPal to take payments from your cart.
Tags: tools e-commerce
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142
PayPal Notifications
PayPal's Instant Payment Notification can be used to tell your app when an order is processed. See how it can be used to mark a cart as purchased.
Tags: tools e-commerce
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143
PayPal Security
Find out how to encrypt the data to send to PayPal and verify the authenticity of Instant Payment Notifications.
Tags: tools security e-commerce
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151
Rack Middleware
Rack middleware provides a way to filter a request and response in your application. We use it to modify the application's response body.
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Debugging RJS
RJS and AJAX can be difficult to debug, especially when the browser doesn't show an error message. Find out how to trace through your AJAX calls in this episode.
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155
Beginning With Cucumber Other translations:
Cucumber is a testing framework that lets you develop with Behaviour-Driven Development. We develop a new application using BDD in this episode.
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157
RSpec Matchers and Macros
Improve readability and remove duplication in RSpec by making use of matchers and macros.
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156
Webrat
Using Webrat allows you to write integration tests in Ruby, rather than in English as you would with Cucumber.
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158
Factories Not Fixtures
Fixtures can make tests brittle and difficult to read. A better alternative is to use factories to create the necessary objects.
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159
More on Cucumber
There's more to Cucumber than was shown in episode 155. Learn how to refactor complex scenarios in this episode.
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161
Three Profiling Tools
Find out what your Rails application is doing under the hood with New Relic RPM, FiveRuns TuneUp and Rack::Bug.
Tags: tools performance
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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.
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164
Cron in Ruby
Cron does a great job of handling recurring tasks, but the syntax is a little tricky. This episode shows you how to use Whenever to write cron jobs in Ruby instead.
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135
Making a Gem
Gems are now a more popular way of extending Rails than plugins. In this episode we go through the steps needed to create a basic gem.
Tags: plugins active-record tools
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183
Gemcutter & Jeweler
Gemcutter is a new service for hosting Ruby Gems. Jeweler is a gem that provides an automated way to release versions of a gem.
Tags: tools
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190
Screen Scraping With Nokogiri Other translations:
Using Nokogiri and SelectorGadget together makes screen-scraping easy.
Tags: tools
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191
Mechanize Other translations:
Mechanize extends Nokogiri, allowing you to interact with websites, filling in forms and clicking links.
Tags: tools
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195
Favourite Web Apps in 2009 Other translations:
In this episode we show you some of the best web applications o 2009 for Ruby developers.
Tags: tools