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Episode 205: Unobtrusive Javascript

March 15, 2010
By Ryan Bates at Railscasts

Keep JavaScript out of your HTML content with unobtrusive JavaScript. Here I show how Rails 3 works with this best practice.
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Episode 204: XSS Protection in Rails 3

March 8, 2010
By Ryan Bates at Railscasts

It is easy to be vulnerable to cross site scripting attacks in earlier versions of Rails, but Rails 3 solves this by automatically escaping unsafe input.
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Episode 203: Routing in Rails 3

March 1, 2010
By Ryan Bates at Railscasts

Rails 3 sports a new routing interface. In this episode I show how to translate the old interface into the new one and show off a few new features.
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Episode 202: Active Record Queries in Rails 3

February 22, 2010
By Ryan Bates at Railscasts

Rails 3 introduces a new query interface for performing finds in Active Record. See how it works along with the changes in named scopes.
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Episode 201: Bundler

February 15, 2010
By Ryan Bates at Railscasts

Bundler is the way to manage gem dependencies in Rails 3.0. Learn how to install gems and lock them down in this episode.
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Episode 200: Rails 3 Beta and RVM

February 8, 2010
By Ryan Bates at Railscasts

Get started with Rails 3.0 Beta and install Ruby 1.9.1 using RVM: Ruby Version Manager. Stay tuned to the end for a challenge on giving back to open source.
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Episode 199: Mobile Devices

February 1, 2010
By Ryan Bates at Railscasts

Change the look and behavior of a Rails app on mobile devices. Also use jQTouch to build a native-looking interface.
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Episode 198: Edit Multiple Individually

January 25, 2010
By Ryan Bates at Railscasts

Use checkboxes to edit multiple records in one form, where each one has an individual set of form fields.
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Episode 197: Nested Model Form Part 2

January 18, 2010
By Ryan Bates at Railscasts

Add and remove nested model fields dynamically through JavaScript using either Prototype or jQuery.
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Episode 196: Nested Model Form Part 1

January 11, 2010
By Ryan Bates at Railscasts

Handling multiple models in a single form is much easier with the accepts_nested_attributes_for method. See how to use this method to handle nested model fields.
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