A Whole New ActionMailer
This video takes you through a tour of the new ActionMailer features in the context of a live application. More information on the content of this screencast
Tag: ruby
Active Record Queries in Rails 3
Rails 3 introduces a new query interface for performing finds in Active Record. See how it works along with the changes in named scopes. http://railscasts.com/episodes/202-active-record-queries-in-rails-3
Rack Basics
Rack is the basis for most major web frameworks in Ruby (like Ruby on Rails.) This video gives a basic overview on how it is used and what features make it a powerful component for Ruby Web Frameworks Video Producer: Teach Me Code
On The Edge of Rails Performance
Since then more Rails applications have gone into production, additional techniques have been developed for optimizing performance, and more open source libraries have been published. In this talk I will first give a quick introduction for those just getting their feet wet with optimizing Rails applications. However, the majority of …
Managing Ruby Teams
Why a talk on managing a development team at a Ruby conference? That would imply that managing a team of Ruby developers is different than managing other development teams. The key difference is managing Ruby developers is… Ruby developers. Generalizing, Ruby developers are a self-selected group of independent thinkers. Developers …
Hey… is that your Database Crying
Although ActiveRecord and the new Rails ORMs are optimized for general use cases with relational databases, most enterprise applications will not preform well enough using just the out-of-the-box functionality. Further, since often the ORMs do such a good job of hiding details when interfacing with the database, issues that might …