ActiveRelation: ActiveRecord Gets a Facelift
This week’s screencast will be a hands-on demonstration of the new ActiveRecord finder API. Read the screencast’s related article
Tag: rubyonrails
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
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
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 …
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 …
Learning TDD through Test-first Teaching
How to get started with TDD? Test-First Teaching is an innovative teaching approach that is gaining widespread adoption. Sarah Allen talks about how she teaches Ruby and Rails through a test-first approach. She demonstrates test-first teaching and then discuss how to turn the corner from simply making tests pass to …