This week, we’re going to cover several Rails plugins that demonstrate some of the new features in Rails 3. In the screencast, we will show you how to use them. In the post, we’ll go into more detail about how they work internally.
A/B Testing (or Split Testing) is a way to experiment with variations in an application to see the most effective option.
MongoDB is a document based database engine. Learn how to access it through MongoMapper in this episode.
CanCan is a simple authorization plugin that offers a lot of flexibility. See how to use it in this episode.
Declarative authorization provides an advanced and powerful solution for role based authorization.
Present a slick user interface for cropping image attachments using Jcrop and Paperclip.
Screen scraping is not pretty, but sometimes it's your only option to extract content from an external site. In this episode I show you how to fetch product prices using ScrAPI.
Is there a long running task which should be handled in the background? One of the best ways is using the delayed_job plugin like I show in this episode.
Learn how to apply OpenID to an existing Authlogic setup as I show in this episode. This builds upon the app from episode 160.