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67 votes
Google Calendar Integration with Rails
1. How to embed Google Calendar in a Rails app.
2. How to integrate the Google Calendar api with Rails app.Google calendar rock! So does Rails. They are made for each other.
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43 votes
jQuery Screencast
startedThe jQuery Javascript Framework.
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43 votes
Recurring Billing PDF
plannedA PDF sequel to the ActiveMerchant book that talks about setting up and processing monthly billings in a secure way that complies with industry regulations.
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42 votes
Consuming APIs with ActiveResource
plannedLots of people use business webapps for invoicing, project management etc. Learning how to use ActiveResource to build a dashboard of all these webapps would be useful.
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36 votes
Publish a Merb screencast
startedA PeepCode screencast about the Merb web framework would be useful.
A Merb PDF draft has been published and will be polished of for the 1.0 release in September.
http://peepcode.com/products/meet-merb-pdf-draft
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34 votes
A comprehensive and advanced RSpec PDF
I couldn't find a comprehensive tutorial on RSpec that walks through all the methods and techniques I would require to test my social networking application. You know, testing stuff like Uploads, Forums, Posts, Users. May be Webrat should also be covered. This is really something that's not being done since long.
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32 votes
Idiomatic Ruby
A screencast or PDF showing unique techniques and patterns used by Rubyists.
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31 votes
Memcached and cache_fu
A screencast or PDF on using memcached to dynamically cache database and rendered content.
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28 votes
Publish a Selenium Screencast
Create a screencast showing how to use selenium on rails and some of the best practices surrounding creating tests
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24 votes
Amazon EC2/S3
In my opinion a screencast on how to integrate Amazon webservices with a web app would be a good show.
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19 votes
Screencast: Ramaze, Sequel, Bacon, and ScaffoldingExtensions
Show behavior-driven development with bacon on the ramaze framework using sequel and scaffolding_extensions--throw in a little erubis. Serve with thin or ebb. Make the example app generic enough that viewers could repurpose/customize. Authentication, roles, permissions, etc.
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18 votes
Rails Internals PDF
A PDF that explores and explains the design and implementation of Rails itself.
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17 votes
iPhone Development
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16 votes
Shopping Cart Screencast with Downloads
Many people want to build a shopping cart that provides digital downloads. This screencast should show how to build such a shopping cart and hook it into both local and third-party download services.
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15 votes
Publish a sproutcore screencast
Seems very obvious to me. Looks very good, as new as possible, and hardly any good tutorials to find. This could be huge.
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14 votes
File Upload Screencast
A screencast about the existing file upload plugins. Should cover options like storage on S3, configuring a server to handle simultaneous uploads, the new Nginx upload plugin, etc.
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14 votes
Regular expressions screencast
A screencast or series about using regular expressions to match patterns. Originally suggested by Pete Forde.
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11 votes
Scaling Rails PDF or Screencast
startedA PDF or screencast on scaling Rails to multiple boxes, optimizing the application, partitioning databases, etc.
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10 votes
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10 votes
OpenID Screencast
Publish a screencast on implementing OpenID into an existing site. It should cover the annoyances of working with OpenID and tips for making it work smoothly.
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10 votes
Implementing design patterns in Ruby and Rails
Would be cool if we can see some Design Patterns being implemented thru Rails and/or Ruby.
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9 votes
User Login and Authentication
A complete A-Z screen cast for how to setup a simple, yet functional user authentication and login.
Should have:
RESTful properties
Rails 2.x
Account creation
Account activation
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9 votes
Publish a Ruport screencast -- Please :)
A screencast on using Ruport would be wonderful!
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7 votes
Progressive Website Design Screencast
A screencast about building a website with current visual idioms. Focuses on CSS, HTML, and design.
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7 votes
nginx
Do an episode on nginx.
Topics could include:
- Installation & Basic Setup
- Subdomains
- Re-writing ( could use maintenance.html as an example )
- Load balancing ( could mention the fair balancer in there )
- Profiling / Optimization
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7 votes
Screencast/PDF on RAD with 'Hobo' extensions to Rails
hobo (hobocentral.net) seems to be very promising for rapid prototyping/app development but is seriously lacking in good documentation
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6 votes
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6 votes
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5 votes
Update the "Rails from Scratch" screencasts to work with 2.0
startedCurrently both "Rails from Scratch" screen casts don't work with Rails 2.0, more specifically 2.0.2.
This is especially problematic as the people using these are unlikely to even understand why they don't work as they're probably beginners.
Part I has been updated to work with Rails 2. Part II includes notes and will be updated soon.
http://peepcode.com/products/rails-from-scratch-part-i
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4 votes
Publish PDFs in printable layout
plannedIt would be useful to be able to print PeepCode PDFs on paper without wasting whitespace. An alternate layout formatted for print would be appreciated.
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3 votes
liquid documentation
Liquid is important because we need to have safe template for many projects, but the documentations so far are very inadequate.
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3 votes
Show how to use ActiveScaffold (activescaffold.com)
I'm an extreme fan of ActiveScaffold (http://activescaffold.com/), but it took weeks to learn how to use it. In the year since I learned it, the documentation has improved but is still not great. The quality of this plugin and its ability to modify whatever you want makes it EXTREMELY powerful, including for customer-facing production sites, but it's not easy to learn and has a bazillion gotchas. I'd highly recommend this as an upcoming screencast.
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3 votes
Sphinx PDF
startedHow to use the Sphinx full-text indexing engine with a Rails application.
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3 votes
Small Startup Manual
A PDF about starting a product-based software business.
Many development shops are trying to build products in order to earn ongoing income that isn't tied to the number of hours that they work. This PDF would cover topics such as:
* Finding a business partner or going solo
* Outsourcing
* Feature triage
* General tax and legal issues
* Determining pricing
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2 votes
Mobile (non iPhone) Development
I would like to see some screen casts on how to keep our Rails 2.x apps looking good on the big monitor and various ( NON iPhone) devices.
Some best practices, tips, etc on how to keep our views looking good across the MANY different screen sizes.
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2 votes
create a screencast about advanced views
I am a newbee, and I would love to see a screencast about advanced view techniques, and maybe some additional examples using more complex associations.
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2 votes
Unix for rails developers
startedIt may appear strange, but I recently moved from Windows to Mac Os and besides learning rails i'm also learning basic unix commands. But the interest thing is that, like me, there may have others in the similar situation, so it would be nice to have a unix tutorial target to rails users. In RoR development, we use many unix features, in particular the Terminal where we input the commands. As a Windows user, the first thing I asked when opening the terminal is: where is the equivalent o C:\ ... of course it's different in unix ....
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2 votes
Sample refactoring of Rails application
We all know we're not SUPPOSED to cram everything into 1 or 2 controllers or write 37-line methods. And we SHOULD move all model code (e.g., find) into the model classes and keep business logic out of the views. Can you start with a typical newbie Rails application (multiple models, big enough to be interesting) and show how to refactor it? Add tests or RSpecs? ---Jim Gagne---
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2 votes
The Ruby Language
A screencast that teaches Ruby language, since it's vital for good Rails development
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2 votes
Add a ruby-debug screencast
It would be cool to have a peepcode-quality ruby-debug screencast walking through methods for tracking down bugs.
It'd be great to have non-obvious things like debugging exceptions in threads covered.
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1 votes
YouTube / eBay / Amazon API Integration
A nice screencast on how to integrate YouTube, eBay and/or Amazon into Rails 2.x
