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Ruby Essentials – Strings, Arrays and Hashes

by Charles Max Wood on February 17, 2010


Are you new to Ruby and want to get a head start? In this screencast, I discuss some of the most common methods and techniques that have to do with strings, arrays and hashes. This is also excellent for those coming from other languages.
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Introduction to Grails – Part 2

by Charles Max Wood on February 8, 2010


In this screencast, we continue on our task of creating a ‘Stack Overflow’ clone by adding more domain classes and relationships between them. We also cover how to test your classes using integration tests.
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Introduction to Grails – Part 1

by Charles Max Wood on January 25, 2010


Are you new to Grails? Grails is an excellent alternative to Ruby on Rails, which uses Groovy / Java. In this screencast, learn how to create a simple CRUD system with Grails.
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Creating an Admin using Nested Controllers

by Charles Max Wood on January 19, 2010


In this screencast, I cover how to create an admin section with a separate login, and describe how nested controllers work.
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Essential CSS for Every Web Developer

by Charles Max Wood on January 2, 2010


Want to know the basics of CSS? Watch this screencast and learn everything you should know as a web developer. We’ll cover the basics which include colors, borders, padding, margins, lists, fonts, backgrounds, tables, links and floats. This is a very basic screencast, so if you are already familiar with these topics, this might be just a review for you.
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Background Processes with Ruby

by Charles Max Wood on December 21, 2009


Learn how to spawn background processes using Ruby and the Process class. Here we discuss the difference between ‘wait’ and ‘detach’.
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Basic Ruby on Rails Routing

by Charles Max Wood on September 25, 2009


Ruby on Rails gives you some simple but powerful tools for mapping URL’s and HTTP Verbs to your Controllers and Views. Here is a simple walkthrough of 4 of these ‘Routes’: default routes, regular routes, named routes, and RESTful routes.
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Ruby Essentials – Blocks

by Charles Max Wood on September 11, 2009


This is a screen-cast explaining how to use blocks in ruby.
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Rails CRUD Example

by Charles Max Wood on July 26, 2009


This is a walkthrough on how to create a simple address book using Ruby on Rails v2.1.

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Introduction to Ruby on Rails 2

by Charles Max Wood on July 26, 2009


Presentation given to introduce Rails for URUG Rails Workshop 2009.

In this screencast, you can learn about Rails from an outside-in approach.

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