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Ruby on Rails Tutorial: Learn Rails by Example (Rails Tutorial - paid)

Learnivore — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0000

The Ruby on Rails 3 Tutorial book and screencast series teach you how to develop and deploy real, industrial-strength web applications with Ruby on Rails. The companion screencast series includes 12 individual lessons totaling more than 15 hours, with one lesson for each chapter of the Ruby on Rails 3 Tutorial book.

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RailsCasts #391 Testing JavaScript with PhantomJS (Railscasts - paid)

Learnivore — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000

PhantomJS allows us to test JavaScript without going through a browser window. Here I show how to do this using Capybara and Poltergeist. I also give some tips on handling database transactions and skipping javascript tests.

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RailsCasts #390 Turbolinks (Railscasts - free)

Learnivore — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Turbolinks can make your Rails app feel faster by using JavaScript to replace the page content when clicking a link. It will be default in new Rails 4.0 applications, but here I show how to use it in Rails 3 and mention some of the gotchas.

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RailsCasts #106 Time Zones (revised) (Railscasts - paid)

Learnivore — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Active Support makes it easy to work with time zones. Learn how to add a Time Zone select field to a user form and watch out for the gotchas.

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RailsCasts #389 Multitenancy with PostgreSQL (Railscasts - paid)

Learnivore — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0000

PostgreSQL Schemas can help create a multi-tenant app by keeping data separate at the database layer. Integrating with migrations can be tricky though, so watch this episode for the full details.

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Meet Chef (Part 2 of 2) (Peepcode - paid)

Learnivore — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0000

It’s the conclusion of Meet Chef Part 1! In 45 minutes, former 37signals sysadmin Joshua Sierles takes you through a Rails deployment and intermediate features of Chef. You’ll learn to: You’ll benefit from Joshua’s extensive experience as he not only explains intermediate features of Chef, but also gives real-world tips...

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RailsCasts #387 Cache Digests (Railscasts - free)

Learnivore — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0000

The cache_digests gem (also included in Rails 4) will automatically add a digest to the fragment cache key based on the template. If a template changes the cache will auto-expire. But watch out for the gotchas!

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RailsCasts #388 Multitenancy with Scopes (Railscasts - paid)

Learnivore — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0000

A multi-tenant application can be difficult to implement because the data for each tenant must be completely separate. Here I show how to do this using subdomains and default scopes in Active Record.

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RailsCasts #85 YAML Configuration (revised) (Railscasts - paid)

Learnivore — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Keeping passwords and secret tokens in source control is a security risk. Here I show how to move these settings out into a YAML configuration file which can be loaded in as a hash or environment variables.

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RailsCasts #386 Authorization from Scratch Part 2 (Railscasts - paid)

Learnivore — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0000

This finishes the series on building authorization from scratch by refactoring the permission logic into a DSL, restricting authorization with attributes, and combining with strong_parameters to protect params.

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