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Episode 99: Complex Partials

How do you handle partials which have differences depending on the action which is rendering them? Here’s three suggestions for this problem.
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Episode 98: Request Profiling

You can use profiling to determine where the performance bottlenecks are in specific Rails actions. Watch this episode for details.
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Episode 95: More on ActiveResource

See how to handle authentication and custom actions using ActiveResource in this episode.
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Episode 96: Git on Rails

Git has been getting a lot of buzz lately, and for good reason. It’s an excellent SCM which in many ways is more simple and powerful than subversion. See how to set up a Rails project with Git in this episode.
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Episode 97: Analyzing the Production Log

In order to improve performance of your Rails application you need to find the bottlenecks. A great starting point is your production log. In this episode you will see how to use RAWK to analyze your log file and determine which controller actions take up the most processing time.
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Episode 94: ActiveResource Basics

ActiveResource allows you to easily communicate between multiple Rails applications. See how in this episode.
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Episode 93: Action Caching

Action caching behaves much like page caching except it processes the controller filters. You can also make it conditional as seen in this episode.
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Episode 92: make_resourceful

The make_resourceful plugin is a great way to DRY up the 7 RESTful actions common in most controllers. Learn how to use it in this episode.
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Episode 91: Refactoring Long Methods

In this episode I walk you through an exercise in refactoring by taking a long method and making it more concise.
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Episode 90: Fragment Caching

Sometimes you only want to cache a section of a page instead of the entire page. Fragment caching is the answer as shown in this episode.
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