tools episodes

Tired of juggling multiple Rails apps around with script/server? See how to set up Passenger in development so each one has its own local domain name.

Selenium is a great way to test your app automatically through a browser. See how it works in this episode.

If you want Rails to behave a certain way, try changing it and submitting a patch. This episode will show how to do exactly this using Git.

In Rails 2.1 we now have the ability to set gem dependencies. Now it's easier than ever to specify which ruby gems our rails app relies on.

Rails 2.1 Release Candidate 1 was just released! In this episode I will show you how to install it into your Rails project.

You can use profiling to determine where the performance bottlenecks are in specific Rails actions. Watch this episode for details.

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.

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.

Have you ever wanted to easily log all variables? Now you can by using some advanced Ruby concepts as shown in this episode.

Application configuration shouldn't be spread throughout your code base. Instead a much better place to put it is an external YAML file. See how to do that in this episode.