This session will explain the importance of usability and teach essential interface design principles for better user experiences on the web. The session will then dive into how to apply these principles in Ruby on Rails code, using a simple rails app to progressively add interface design improvements to enhance …
Git is the source control system used to manage the Ruby on Rails project, as well as many other major open source projects. This talk will provide an introduction to how Git works and how to use it effectively to manage your projects. The talk will cover: * How Git …
No need to pass foreign keys in find conditions, just do the find through a has_many association. http://railscasts.com/episodes/3-find-through-association
In this talk, Yehuda Katz goes deeper, explaining some of the details of the work. He explains how Rails is becoming ORM agnostic, with code samples of work done so far. He shows some of the more significant performance enhancements, and explains why they increased the performance of the framework. …
Shorten simple finds considerably and improve readability by using the dynamic find_all_by and find_by methods. http://railscasts.com/episodes/2-dynamic-find-by-methods
Learn a quick way to improve performance. Just store the end result of an expensive command in an instance variable! http://railscasts.com/episodes/1-caching-with-instance-variables