Railscasts, maintained by Ryan Bates, continues to release one great free screencast after another, with 9 so far this month, although we're going to include one from June 29 for good measure. We first looked at Railscasts a few months ago, so if you haven't visited again since, it's worth it. Here are the latest screencasts:
- Testing Without Fixtures - Fed up with using fixtures for your tests? Find a better way.
- will_paginate - A look at the "new way" to do pagination in Rails using the will_paginate plugin.
- Updating Through Checkboxes - How to perform actions on multiple items selected with checkboxes in a Rails view.
- Handling Exceptions - Learn about exceptions and how to handle them in Rails apps.
- The Logger - No, it's not about felling trees. Learn how to send messages to the log and how to customize it.
- How to Make a Generator - A look at building your own generator, much like the ones that come with Rails.
- Optimistic Locking - How to resolve situations when two people want to update the same record at the same time.
At the same time, Geoffrey Grosenbach, curator of PeepCode (and a new sponsor of Ruby Inside), has been storming ahead with his own set of screencasts, a few of which will be of direct interest to Rubyists / Rails developers:
- rSpec Basics - A look at Behavior Driven Development. An ideal starting point if you haven't touched BDD yet but have been intrigued.
- Rails From Scratch: Part I - A great up-to-date introductory "course" for getting into Rails. Even includes a free 20 page reference guide to Ruby and Rails, and an introduction to Ruby syntax. It's everything a new Rails developer needs.
- Rails From Scratch: Part II - Another 80 minutes of great introductory material for new Rails developers.
While Railscasts' screencasts are totally free, Peepcode screencasts cost $9 each, but for the great packaging, length, and total depth of the material covered, they're still bargains!
Comments
David Parker ·
Ryan's screencasts are great little snippets. Geoffrey's are also worth every penny. You can buy them in a pack of 5 or 10 and save some cash... I've bought 7- 2 individually and a pack of 5... definitely worth it overall!
Dejan Dimic ·
Railscasts by Ryan Bates are one of the best, if not the BEST, informative screen casts about the Rails and development with it.
I cherish all of them as a great learning material for my younger colleagues, in Rails development terms.
Ryan surprise me every time with new ideas and themes and it seams that he has a great sensitivity about what we as Rails developers need and what arrays should be more clarified.
I personally want to give a tribute to Ryan hopping that he will continue to make such great place for learning not just about Rails but about software developer attitude also.
Ryan, we salute You!
taco ·
luv Ryan's casts. I bought one from PeepCode and no offense, but Geoffrey's voice drives me crazy. had to stop watching halfway thru.
cbmeeks ·
Those screen casts are great!
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Rafael ·
Hi
I also catch every episode, but from both of them. I really like the tipps and also the more indepth screencasts from geoffrey.
peepcodes episodes could even be a little more advanced I think.
But anyway, it gives a good start for beginners! ...And even for a post-beginner as I am, there are always some useful hints