What topic would you like me to cover in future Railscasts episodes? If you want to make a suggestion about the website itself, use the other forum on the right side.
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1,574 votes
Complex multi-model forms with helpers
how to write helpers to manage multi models forms easily (perhaps from complex forms railscats) to manage properly foreign keys included polymorphic associations
Than you so much
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1,466 votes
Build an entire application over a series of screencasts
Build an application over a series of screencasts, like a shopping cart, or forum, with several features, and address problems as you go (try to have it unprepared so we see the thought process behind writing an app).
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877 votes
TextMate Tips
It appears that you are using many advanced features of TextMate and a show detailing how TextMate helps you in a Rails development environment by showing shortcuts and various other language features that it offers.
I don't plan to dedicate a Railscasts episodes to TextMate because it is platform specific. However, if there seems to be enough interest, I may make a separate screencast series which covers textmate and terminal tricks. I'll leave this up here to see the interest in that.
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714 votes
Tabbed Navigation
A railscasts on the best way to setup tabbed navigation at both a application level (ie.. Home, Search, Reports..) and at a model level (ie.. Person - Main info for person, associated pictures, reviews, etc). Also include full crud operations in tabbed setup vs. just a read only setup.
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488 votes
Rich text entry within a form
It would be cool to see a railscast episode on giving users a rich text entry system (With the usual bold, italic etc options), and to see how rails could be used to convert their input into html or textile to store within the database.
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423 votes
ajax model validation
Can you do an epissode on how to validate models created via ajax requests?
Thanks,
Catalin
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349 votes
Green Eggs and HAML
I think you should do an episode on HAML and all its markup beauty.
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331 votes
show how to setup rails servers (eg apache+mongrel) for prod
Maybe a series of screencasts showing how to configure mongrel to work with apache (among other variations) for a live deployment eg www.myrailssite.com.
Also as an example, maybe how to set up a development subdomain for a mongrel running in dev mode. eg dev.myrailssite.com
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273 votes
Ruby reports with Ruport
i'd like to see a railscast on using http://rubyreports.org/
I think an episode on Ruport would be great. Thanks for the suggestion. If anyone has any ideas on what specific parts of it to cover and how to present it, please post a comment.
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259 votes
Modelling of recurring events
"Every first Thursday in a month". There are a some plugins and gems (Runt, acts_as_calender, recurring.rubyforge.org and some more) to handle this. Show how to use them and give some recommendations.
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240 votes
How does rails work?
The basic concept how rails and a web framworks in ruby works. Where does it start? how do it get the request? etc
I am considering doing an episode on reading the Rails source code since I often find myself going there when the docs aren't enough. There I will cover how it is organized and what the various things do. Is this kind of what you're looking for? Please respond in comments.
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229 votes
Multi-Step forms and Wizards
Many user registration forms on the Web don't fit on one page. There might be login info on one page, a billing info page on the next, and a credit card detail page depending on what they had answered in a previous form. What is the best way to create these multistep forms in rails? Is it possib... more
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219 votes
RESTful polymorphic model controllers
How to create a RESTful controller for polymorphic models like tags/taggings, which can be related to many different models. EG /photos/tags, /users/tags, /locations/tags, etc... I am using the acts_as_taggable_on plugin for creating contextual tags, and have implemented a solution, but I think ... more
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204 votes
Recurring billing
Please continue the PayPal and ActiveMerchant series with an episode on recurring billing for subscriptions.
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204 votes
Scaling, mod_rails, and deploying of production server
How about an episode or few, on scaling of Rails projects? It can come quite handy when your project grows up with time.
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170 votes
Gears on Rails
Would love to see a Gears on Rails screencast.
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153 votes
Refactoring based episodes
I do have some episodes on refactoring already, but I would like to do more as well. If you have specific ideas for a refactoring episode, please post in comments.
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149 votes
Configuring passenger and deploying to it via capistrano
Since passenger seems to be what the cool kids are using for rails hosting these days, a quick run-through of setting it up followed by how to deploy and restart the app with capistrano would be very useful.
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138 votes
Model Inheritance
Cover the methods for implementing inheritance. STI example and creating relationships with inherited objects using has_many
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138 votes
Event handling
Hi Ryan,
It would be great if you can make a cast about RoR + event handling.
For example: you've got a webshop, a customer has put an item to him/her basket. This generates an event. You can attach number of endless procedures, ex. decrease yout stock; send an alert mail to you for debug purpo... more
