Railscasts: Free Ruby on Rails Screencasts

Railscasts

Railscasts is a new project by Ryan Bates providing regular, free screencasts on topics relating to Ruby on Rails. As opposed to Geoffrey Grosenbach's wonderfully detailed Peepcode screencasts, Railscasts videos are very short and each is focused on a very small area. Current topics include layouts, with_scope, Symbol#to_proc, caching with instance variables, and dynamic find_by methods.

The screencasts are well produced and to the point, and feature the creepiest opening sequence of any Ruby-related screencast so far.

Note: Make sure to use the "Download" links on the Railscasts site rather than clicking on the video titles as that will result in an error.

Comments

Josh · March 19, 2007 at 2:00 pm
Congrats to Ryan for getting the site up and putting these together. They're really great!
I love that opening sequence. :D
Jesse Andrews · March 19, 2007 at 5:29 pm
I wish both Railscasts and Peepcode would allow user comments on the videos. It is harder for the peepcode video since there is much more content to comment upon, but for railscast it wouldn't be bad.
Kevin Marsh · March 19, 2007 at 6:44 pm
These are absolutely awesome!
I love the little keyboard shortcut popup, it helps to explain some of the TextMate voodoo and is something I've wondering about doing (or seeing done) for a long time.
Any idea how it's achieved, I'm guessing Growl + something?
Ryan Bates · March 19, 2007 at 8:43 pm
The ability to add comments for each episode is in the works. Hopefully I will get a chance to add that in a week or so.
The visual key commands are done using "KeyCastr":http://stephendeken.net/software/keycastr/
Thanks for the feedback!
Josh · March 19, 2007 at 10:01 pm
I think Ryan uses a program called iShowU.
Josh · March 20, 2007 at 3:25 am
I swear when I made that comment there wasn't one from Ryan... whoops! :)
Kevin Federline · March 20, 2007 at 7:24 am
Looks like someone just screwed Peepcode's business model :-)
Peter Cooper · March 20, 2007 at 3:15 pm
KFed: I initially thought that, but then I realized they're in different leagues. Both are good, but you can't compare 3 minute quick tips with an hour packed of insight and perspective. Also.. Peepcode sponsors it!
Ben Kittrell · March 20, 2007 at 6:01 pm
Sweet, RyanB is the man!
Alexander Lomakin · March 21, 2007 at 6:04 pm
That is great thing! I am viewing it now.
Fred · March 28, 2007 at 5:55 pm
Great screencasts! Something smart in every episode.