News on Rails http://newsonrails.org Ruby on Rails news, articles, and tutorials from around the web. Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:37:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 en Episode 99: Complex Partials http://newsonrails.org/episode-99-complex-partials http://newsonrails.org/episode-99-complex-partials#comments Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:37:00 +0000 adam http://newsonrails.org/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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]]> http://newsonrails.org/episode-99-complex-partials/feed Episode 96: Git on Rails http://newsonrails.org/episode-96-git-on-rails-2 http://newsonrails.org/episode-96-git-on-rails-2#comments Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:36:59 +0000 adam http://newsonrails.org/episode-96-git-on-rails-2 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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]]> http://newsonrails.org/episode-96-git-on-rails-2/feed Episode 95: More on ActiveResource http://newsonrails.org/episode-95-more-on-activeresource-2 http://newsonrails.org/episode-95-more-on-activeresource-2#comments Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:36:59 +0000 adam http://newsonrails.org/episode-95-more-on-activeresource-2 See how to handle authentication and custom actions using ActiveResource in this episode.

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]]> http://newsonrails.org/episode-95-more-on-activeresource-2/feed Episode 98: Request Profiling http://newsonrails.org/episode-98-request-profiling http://newsonrails.org/episode-98-request-profiling#comments Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:36:59 +0000 adam http://newsonrails.org/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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]]> http://newsonrails.org/episode-98-request-profiling/feed Episode 94: ActiveResource Basics http://newsonrails.org/episode-94-activeresource-basics-2 http://newsonrails.org/episode-94-activeresource-basics-2#comments Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:36:58 +0000 adam http://newsonrails.org/episode-94-activeresource-basics-2 ActiveResource allows you to easily communicate between multiple Rails applications. See how in this episode.

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]]> http://newsonrails.org/episode-94-activeresource-basics-2/feed Episode 97: Analyzing the Production Log http://newsonrails.org/episode-97-analyzing-the-production-log http://newsonrails.org/episode-97-analyzing-the-production-log#comments Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:36:58 +0000 adam http://newsonrails.org/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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]]> http://newsonrails.org/episode-97-analyzing-the-production-log/feed Episode 93: Action Caching http://newsonrails.org/episode-93-action-caching-2 http://newsonrails.org/episode-93-action-caching-2#comments Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:36:57 +0000 adam http://newsonrails.org/episode-93-action-caching-2 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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]]> http://newsonrails.org/episode-93-action-caching-2/feed Episode 92: make_resourceful http://newsonrails.org/episode-92-make_resourceful-2 http://newsonrails.org/episode-92-make_resourceful-2#comments Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:36:56 +0000 adam http://newsonrails.org/episode-92-make_resourceful-2 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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]]> http://newsonrails.org/episode-92-make_resourceful-2/feed Episode 91: Refactoring Long Methods http://newsonrails.org/episode-91-refactoring-long-methods-2 http://newsonrails.org/episode-91-refactoring-long-methods-2#comments Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:36:55 +0000 adam http://newsonrails.org/episode-91-refactoring-long-methods-2 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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]]> http://newsonrails.org/episode-91-refactoring-long-methods-2/feed Episode 90: Fragment Caching http://newsonrails.org/episode-90-fragment-caching-2 http://newsonrails.org/episode-90-fragment-caching-2#comments Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:36:54 +0000 adam http://newsonrails.org/episode-90-fragment-caching-2 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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