Rubyology

In keeping up with our framework lessons, I selected two new scaffolding frameworks that add tons of cool AJAX and datagrid and scaffolding goodness to your applications with only a couple of commands! They are ActiveScaffold (formerly AjaxScaffold) and Streamlined. For a bonus, I also provide you with a sneak peak at another scaffolding framework called Auto-Admin.

Today's Rubyology podcast covers a powerful, up and coming new development framework called Hobo. This new plugin can be found at HoboCentral.net. It sits on top of the Rails framework and includes user role management and AJAX and slick stylesheets built-in allowing you to create a full-featured web application in minutes - no joke!

Today we cover Why The Lucky Stiff's Camping framework for Ruby. This is the tiny little framework (4KB size) that could. This amazing little application supports databases and allows you to quickly build small web-based applications with a 1 file distro.

Hey fellow code monkeys! Today we are going to introduce you to Adobe's Flex data services and XML-RPC followed by a quick explanation of the podcasting website that I built my wife this week called SpaTada.com.

Alright code monkeys - push away your keyboards and grab your coffee. I'm going to need your full attention on this podcast! Today we will be covering the new REST (Representational State Transfer) features of Rails 1.2.x. This new methodology creates a powerful, new multi-modal solution that will further propel our web development innovations!

Okay Code Monkeys it's time to deploy our Ruby on Rails application to a hosting provider! I'll walk you through the necessary Subversion, Secure Shell, and Capistrano steps required to launch your application. Here is the link to SteelPixel's wiki page of deployment goodness: http://steelpixel.stikipad.com/support/

Learn how to add AJAX to your Web 2.0 Ruby on Rails application using the link_to_remote tag and the form_remote_tag. I also briefly cover the script.aculo.us - web 2.0 javascript library and the auto_complete_for feature used in my Chug'd site (http://chugd.com)!

This episode of Rubyology explores the concept of the Rails MVC (Model, View, Controller) and how basic Rails applications work. We also walk through the creation of a very simple scaffolding exercise and discuss CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) and various Rails files including helpers, partials, layout, and CSS. Grab your coffee and geek out with me!

This episode will explain the various pre-packaged Ruby on Rails framework deployment solutions as well as walk you through the full deployment of Ruby 1.8.5, Rails 1.2.2, Subversion, Capistrano, Mongrel, and MySQL.

Welcome to Rubyology! Let me introduce myself and explain why I am excited about Ruby on Rails web software development.