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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 #320 Jbuilder (Railscasts - free)

Learnivore — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Jbuilder provides a DSL for generating JSON. It includes a template engine which allows you to create complex responses with helpers and conditions.

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RailsCasts #321 HTTP Caching (Railscasts - paid)

Learnivore — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000

With HTTP response headers you can the cache in the user's browser and proxies. Etags, Last-Modified, Cache-Control and Rack::Cache are all covered here

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RailsCasts #150 Rails Metal (revised) (Railscasts - paid)

Learnivore — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Rails metal may have been removed in Rails 3, but it is possible to bypass the entire Rails stack through middleware as shown in this episode.

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RailsCasts #318 Upgrading to Rails 3.2 (Railscasts - free)

Learnivore — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Rails 3.2 sports many new features including automatic explain queries, tagged logging, key-value store in Active Record, improved migration generator and more. Learn all about these new features in this episode.

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RailsCasts #319 Rails Middleware Walkthrough (Railscasts - paid)

Learnivore — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Here I describe each Rack middleware that is included in a Rails app which will give you a better understanding of what a request goes through behind the scenes before it hits your application.

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RailsCasts #72 Adding an Environment (revised) (Railscasts - paid)

Learnivore — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Rails comes with three environments: development, test, and production, but it is easy to add your own. Here I show how to add a separate staging environment and how to start up Rails under this.

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Episode 4: Context In JavaScript (Watch Me Code - paid)

Learnivore — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000

When was the last time JavaScript's "this" worked the way you thought it did? You have an object with a function, and you call "this" to get some data from the it only to find that the data isn't there because "this" isn't the object you thought it was! In this episode, we'll look at all function invocations and how they manipulate "this". We'll also see some common scenarios that trip people up, like passing an object's method as a callback.

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RailsCasts #316 Private Pub (Railscasts - free)

Learnivore — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Private Pub makes it easier than ever to publish and subscribe to real-time events in a Rails app. You can use publish_to with a block of JavaScript or supply a hash for use with JSON.

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RailsCasts #317 Rack App from Scratch (Railscasts - paid)

Learnivore — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Rack comes with many helpful utilities such as request and response objects, various middleware, and MockRequest for testing. Here I cover all of these while building a Rack app from scratch.

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