CoffeeScript for Rubyists

Published May 24th, 2012 Under JavaScript | Leave a Comment

This video provides a CoffeeScript introduction from the perspective of a Ruby aficionado. The talk focuses on what’s in the language, as well as what makes CoffeeScript so compelling for a Rubyist. The presentation also covers how to install CoffeeScript, how to convert your JavaScript to CoffeeScript and how to include CoffeeScript in a pre-Rails-3.1 application. Read more

Ruby, JavaScript and the Mobile Web

Published February 13th, 2012 Under JavaScript | Leave a Comment

Rich interactive mobile web applications requires applications that are built with JavaScript but still require server backends. While there are many new JavaScript frameworks, only a few are suited to mobile web applications and integrating them can be challenging. Read more

Managing Javascript and CSS with Rack

Published August 15th, 2011 Under JavaScript | Leave a Comment

In most web applications, managing Javascript and CSS is a mess. This video presents a new Rack-based approach to packaging assets using a lightweight gem called Stork. You’ll learn organizational conventions, advanced CSS techniques with Sass, and simple ways to modularize your Javascript all while sending a tightly packaged set of assets to the browser.

Video Producer: Chicago Ruby

jQuery and Sinatra, a Classy Combination

Published January 31st, 2011 Under JavaScript | Leave a Comment

This video shows you how to develop web applications using jQuery and Sinatra. jQuery is a simple Javascript library that has taken the web application world by storm. Sinatra is a simple ruby web framework that allows you to develop REST applications with a minimum of overhead.

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Forms Don’t Have to be this Complicated

Published December 2nd, 2010 Under HTML, User Interface | Leave a Comment

HTML Forms have made huge strides in recent years, with AJAX and HTML5. Unfortunately, our tools to make them haven’t been keeping up. Since Forms have been talked to death many times before, I’ll touch only briefly on the new stuff available in HTML5, and where current form builders (Rails’ FormBuilder and Formtastic) fail. I’ll give an overview of a library I wrote to ease the pain, Mold, as well as some best-practice techniques for dealing with complicated, nested forms.

Producer: Mountain.rb Conference

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