Podcasts
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Railscasts: #368 MiniProfiler
MiniProfiler allows you to see the speed of a request conveniently on the page. It also shows the SQL queries performed and allows you to profile a specific block of code.
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Railscasts: #366 Sidekiq
Sidekiq allows you to move jobs into the background for asynchronous processing. It uses threads instead of forks so it is much more efficient with memory compared to Resque.
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Railscasts: #364 Active Record Reputation System
If you need to calculate an average user's rating or sum up a number of votes, consider using the activerecord-reputation-system gem. Here I will cover the basics and also briefly present a from-scratch solution.
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Railscasts: #362 Exporting CSV and Excel
As you will see it is easy to add a CSV export option to Rails. Here I also show how to export for Excel in a variety of formats.
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Railscasts: #360 Facebook Authentication
This will show how to create a new facebook application and configure it. Then add some authentication with the omniauth-facebook gem and top it off with a client-side authentication using the JavaScript SDK.
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Railscasts: #358 Brakeman
The Brakeman gem will scan the Ruby code of a Rails application and alert you to common security vulnerabilities.
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Railscasts: #356 Dangers of Session Hijacking
If a user's authentication cookie is sent over an insecure connection it is vulnerable to session hijacking, or more specifically, sidejacking. Learn how this is done, and how you can prevent it.
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Railscasts: #354 Squeel
Squeel provides a comprehensive DSL for writing SQL queries in Ruby. It is built upon Arel giving you access to many of its powerful features.
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Railscasts: #352 Securing an API
There are many approaches to locking down an API. Here I start off with HTTP Basic authentication then move on to generating a unique token which can be passed through a URL parameter or HTTP header.
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Railscasts: #350 REST API Versioning
APIs should be consistent, but it is difficult to do this when returning a JSON response along side the HTML interface. Here I show how to add a versioned, RESTful API. The version can be determined from either the URL or HTTP headers.
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Railscasts: #348 The Rails API Gem
It is often asked: Is Rails a good fit if I only need to serve an API? In this episode I show how to use the Rails API gem to create a slimmer Rails application designed to respond with JSON.
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Railscasts: #346 Wizard Forms with Wicked
Creating a wizard form can be tricky in Rails. Learn how Wicked can help by turning a controller into a series of multiple steps.
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Railscasts: #347 Rubber and Amazon EC2
Deploying to Amazon EC2 allows you to scale an application quickly. Learn how to use Rubber to deploy to the cloud with just a few commands and monitor the cluster with various web tools.
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Railscasts: #344 Queue Classic
PostgreSQL can act as a worker queue which can replace the need for a separate process to manage the background jobs. Here you will learn how to do this with the queue_classic gem.
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Railscasts: #342 Migrating to PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL is a feature-packed relational database that every Rails developer should consider using. Here you will learn how to install it, add it to a new application, and transition from an existing SQLite app using the "taps" gem.
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dnrTV - .NET Rocks Screencasts: JP Boodhoo's Software Craftsmanship Bootcamp Part 3
Jean Paul Boodhoo continues walking toward a solution by following refactoring patterns toward an inevitable brick wall.
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Railscasts: #340 DataTables
DataTables makes it easy to convert a plain HTML table into one with pagination, sorting, and searching - all done with JavaScript and jQuery. Here I show how to set this up and use a Rails application as the data source.
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Railscasts: #338 Globalize3
Rails has great internationalization (I18n) support making it easy to translate static text into other languages, but how do we translate database content? Learn how using Globalize 3 in this episode.
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dnrTV - .NET Rocks Screencasts: JP Boodhoo's Software Craftsmanship Bootcamp Part 2
Carl and Jean Paul take you from initial set-up to simulating group development in this Part 2 of his Software Craftsmanship Bootcamp series. JP demos some common practices and design principals and explains why they work.
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Railscasts: #336 Copycopter
Copycopter provides a nice interface that clients can use to edit the text in a Rails application. Learn how to deploy a Copycopter server using Heroku and integrate it in a Rails application through I18n.
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Hanselminutes
Last episode 11 years ago on www.hanselminutes.com
Hanselminutes is a weekly audio talk show with noted web developer and technologist Scott Hanselman and hosted by Carl Franklin. Scott discusses utilities and tools, gives practical how-to advice, and discusses ASP.NET or Windows issues and workarounds.
