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RubyHead Minute: Running Rails’ Tests

Ruby 2.0 – Prepending Module

First look at prepending a module.

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Ruby 2.0 – Getting Started & Named Parameters

Start of me playing with Ruby 2.0. Covers my installation and named parameter to start.

$: Fun

Back to basics screencast on $LOAD_PATH.

How I Code

Here’s a glimpse of how I code/work.

My Own Personal Pastie

In this video, I create a Sinatra app that creates syntax highlight using Ultraviolet gem. It uses MongoDB to store the code pasted. You can actually use the code to create your own Pastie clone.

Show Notes:
Link to the code: https://github.com/joonyou/screencasts/tree/master/my_pastie
Sinatra: http://www.sinatrarb.com
Ultraviolet: https://github.com/grosser/ultraviolet

Encrypting Fun With Cocoa & Rails

In the video I quickly show you a technique I use to encrypt parameters from cocoa/ios app to a API server running on Rails. And hopefully introduce encryption at the same time.

Download the original MP4 file here.

Links to code:

Video Conversion with Ruby

I’m not big on rehashing old stuff, but I didn’t realize at the time I created this screencast that I was actually doing video conversion. My original intention was to show forking in Ruby. Well, here’s the same video with different title this time. It’s an oldie but goodie and it goes to show you how bad my screencasting skills were.