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Rack Basics

by Charles Max Wood on August 27, 2010

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

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Rails 3 – Build a Blog – Part 3: Edit and Delete CRUD

by Charles Max Wood on August 10, 2010



This is the continuation of the Rails 3 Build a Blog series. This episode includes implementation of the Edit and Destroy methods on the Posts Controller. There are a lot of things left to cover on Rails 3, but this gets you the basics of the MVC framework and how to use Cucumber to build your application using BDD.

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Upgrading Rails 3.0 Beta4 to Rails 3.0 Release Candidate

by Charles Max Wood on July 27, 2010

This video goes over some issues that popped up while upgrading a Rails 3 application to the Release Candidate

This video goes over some issues that popped up while upgrading a Rails 3 application to the Release Candidate.
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Ruby’s Enumerable Module: The Inject Method

by Charles Max Wood on July 16, 2010


Quick Ruby Tip: The inject method is useful for aggregating data across a dataset. For example a summation could be done with inject (by aggregating each number into the sum.)
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Rails 3 – Building a Blog – Part 2: CRUD Show and Create

by Charles Max Wood on June 30, 2010


The second part of the tutorial for building a blog with Ruby on Rails version 3. We demonstrate how to set up some basic routes, manage the controller and views, and create a basic form for creating posts.
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Rails 3 – Building a Blog – Part 1: Test Setup & Generators

by Charles Max Wood on June 22, 2010


Every good project needs a good setup. In this episode, I set up a github repo, create a new rails application, hook in Cucumber and Rspec, write a Cucumber feature, and write the code to make it pass.
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RSpec Matchers

by Charles Max Wood on June 3, 2010


RSpec gives us many powerful tools to make our tests readable. Matchers allow us to provide custom predicates to our should statements that succinctly define the behavior of our code.
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Ruby Method Name with Spaces

by Charles Max Wood on May 27, 2010


This is an introduction to Ruby metaprogramming where I cover two different ways to define a method. The idea actually started as a joke, but there are valuable lessons to be learned here.
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Shoulda on Rails

by Charles Max Wood on May 18, 2010


Shoulda is a framework that sits on top of Test::Unit and adds a ton of nice features like macro’s, nested context, and the ability to create custom tests in a block-based DSL.
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RSpec Subjects

by Charles Max Wood on May 5, 2010


RSpec provides an extremely concise way of representing simple tests to be called on new instances of a class or on explicitly defined receiver objects. You can do this by using ‘subjects’ either as defined by the ‘describe’ or the ‘subject’ methods.
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