https://www.developerfusion.com/t/ria/media/view/video/sort/popularity/ 2011-05-30T08:05:00.00Z http://www.developerfusion.com/media/119032/136-jquery/ 2011-05-10T03:36:00.00Z

How do you use jQuery with Rails? In this episode I redo episode #43 using jQuery instead of Prototype/RJS.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/media/118971/197-nested-model-form-part-2/ 2011-05-10T03:36:00.00Z

Add and remove nested model fields dynamically through JavaScript using either Prototype or jQuery.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/media/118963/205-unobtrusive-javascript/ 2011-05-10T03:36:00.00Z

Keep JavaScript out of your HTML content with unobtrusive JavaScript. Here I show how Rails 3 works with this best practice.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/media/118948/220-pdfkit/ 2011-05-10T03:36:00.00Z

Generating PDFs in plain Ruby can be a lot of work. Instead, consider generating PDFs from HTML using PDFKit.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/media/119851/267-coffeescript-basics/ 2011-05-23T09:55:00.00Z

CoffeeScript allows you to write JavaScript in a concise, elegant fashion. Here I convert JavaScript code to CoffeeScript in a Rails 3.1 app.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/media/118907/261-testing-javascript-with-jasmine/ 2011-05-10T03:36:00.00Z

Are you testing your JavaScript? Learn how to add specs using Jasmine. This episode also covers jQuery integration with jasmine-jquery.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/media/118994/174-pagination-with-ajax/ 2011-05-10T03:36:00.00Z

Learn an easy, unobtrusive way to add AJAX functionality to an existing set of pagination links using jQuery.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/media/118988/180-finding-unused-css/ 2011-05-10T03:36:00.00Z

Over time a CSS file can become large and filled with unused selectors. In this episode I show how to use the Deadweight gem to determine which CSS selects you can remove.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/media/118993/175-ajax-history-and-bookmarks/ 2011-05-10T03:36:00.00Z

Browser page history and bookmarks do not usually work with AJAX requests, but in this episode I show you how to remedy this problem using a simple jQuery plugin.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/media/118910/258-token-fields/ 2011-05-10T03:36:00.00Z

With the jQuery Tokeninput plugin it is easy to add an autocompleting list of entries for a many-to-many association.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/media/118999/169-dynamic-page-caching/ 2011-05-10T03:36:00.00Z

Use JavaScript to allow dynamic content in a page cache. In this episode I show you how to insert the user-specific content into a page through JavaScript.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/media/119478/266-http-streaming/ 2011-05-16T07:44:00.00Z

HTTP Streaming allows the browser to start processing the HTML response while the Rails app is still processing the rest of the request.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/media/120080/268-sass-basics/ 2011-05-30T08:05:00.00Z

Sass extends CSS with variables, nesting, mixins and more. Here I show how to convert plain CSS to SCSS in a Rails 3.1 app.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/media/118939/229-polling-for-changes/ 2011-05-10T03:36:00.00Z

If you have frequently changing data on the server side, it's helpful to automatically display this to the user as well. Here I show how to accomplish this with polling in jQuery.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/media/118911/257-request-specs-and-capybara/ 2011-05-10T03:36:00.00Z

Request specs in RSpec are a great way to ensure the entire application stack is working properly. Here I also show how to use capybara with integrated JavaScript testing using Selenium.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/media/118922/246-ajax-history-state/ 2011-05-10T03:36:00.00Z

The new pushState function in JavaScript allows us to change the full URL with AJAX. This means the back button, reloading, and bookmark support can be easily added.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/media/118921/247-offline-apps-part-1/ 2011-05-10T03:36:00.00Z

Learn how to make a site usable offline through an HTML 5 cache manifest. This first part of the series covers rack-offline and problems you may run into.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/media/119091/77-destroy-without-javascript/ 2011-05-10T03:36:00.00Z

If the user has JavaScript disabled, the "Destroy" link might not work properly. In this episode I will explore a number of ways to work around this issue.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/media/119141/27-cross-site-scripting/ 2011-05-10T03:36:00.00Z

Another common security issue is cross site scripting. In this episode you will see why it is so important to escape any HTML a user may submit.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/media/119099/69-markaby-in-helper/ 2011-05-10T03:36:00.00Z

Do you ever need to generate HTML code in a helper method? Placing it directly in Ruby strings is not very pretty. Learn a great way to generate HTML through Markaby in this episode.

James Crowley