Recent Episodes
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Getting Started With Spree Other translations:
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.
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Mercury Editor Other translations:
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.
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Playing With PJAX Other translations:
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.
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Virtual Machines with Vagrant Other translations:
Vagrant allows you to run your Rails application and all of its dependencies in a portable, sharable environment. Use for development, set it up as a staging server, or experiment with a production setup.
Tags: tools
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SOAP With Savon Other translations:
Communicating with a SOAP API can be a daunting task. Savon makes this easier by presenting the SOAP API through a Ruby interface.
Tags: plugins
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Billing With Stripe Other translations:
Stripe is a full-stack payment solution with very reasonable pricing and is easy to setup. See how to add it to a Rails application here. Currently only available in the US.
Tags: eCommerce
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Draper Other translations:
Clean up complex view logic using Draper. This gem provides decorators (much like presenters) which bundles view logic in an object oriented fashion. In this episode we do a step-by-step refactoring of a complex template into a decorator.
Tags: views plugins refactoring
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Spork Other translations:
Spork improves the loading time of your test suite by starting up your Rails application once in the background. Use it with Guard for the ultimate combo in fast feedback while doing TDD.
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Active Admin Other translations:
Active Admin allows you to quickly build an admin interface with just a few commands. Not only does it look great, but it is very customizable as shown in this episode.
Tags: administration plugins
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Authentication With Sorcery Other translations:
Sorcery is a full-featured, modular solution to authentication which leaves the controller and view layers up to you.
Tags: authentication plugins