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Episode 229: Polling for Changes

2010/08/30
By Ryan Bates

If you have frequently changing data on the server side, it's helpful to automatically display this to the user as well. Here I show how to accomplish this with polling in jQuery.
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Episode 228: Sortable Table Columns

2010/08/23
By Ryan Bates

Here I walk you through adding the ability to sort table columns in ascending or descending order by clicking the header.
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Episode 227: Upgrading to Rails 3 Part 3

2010/08/16
By Ryan Bates

Here we finish up this upgrade series by removing all deprecation warnings and fixing some problems in the view.
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Episode 226: Upgrading to Rails 3 Part 2

2010/08/09
By Ryan Bates

Here we continue upgrading an application to Rails 3 by getting our specs up and running and going through the rails_upgrade plugin.
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Episode 225: Upgrading to Rails 3 Part 1

2010/08/02
By Ryan Bates

In the first part of this series on upgrading a Rails 2 application to Rails 3, we'll start off by setting up Rails 3.0 Release Candidate in a clean environment. The rails_upgrade plugin will then help us determine what needs upgrading.
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Episode 224: Controllers in Rails 3

2010/07/26
By Ryan Bates

Embedded flash notices, permanent cookies, and the details of respond_with are in this episode.
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Episode 223: Charts

2010/07/19
By Ryan Bates

There are a number of libraries to help create graphs. Here I show how to integrate Highcharts into a Rails app.
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Episode 222: Rack in Rails 3

2010/07/12
By Ryan Bates

The router in Rails 3 is fully compatible with Rack. Learn how to embed Sinatra into an app, handle redirects, and improve on Rails Metal.
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Episode 221: Subdomains in Rails 3

2010/07/05
By Ryan Bates

It is now possible to add subdomains to Rails 3 without the use of additional plugins. Learn how in this episode.
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Episode 220: PDFKit

2010/06/28
By Ryan Bates

Generating PDFs in plain Ruby can be a lot of work. Instead, consider generating PDFs from HTML using PDFKit.
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