Best Max Rail Podcasts (2025)

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13: Billionaire Technocrats Just Aren't What They Used to Be 1:37:44

7y ago1:37:44

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We have a chill post-Memorial Day Weekend episode and go over the very chill “cute girls camping” anime series Yuru Camp, before getting deep into the trippy sci-fi film Contact. Discussion topics include the horrors of being an introvert and other people wanting to do things with you, anime food porn, the gripping drama of scientists trying to get…

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12: Mad Max: Fury Rails 1:16:24

7y ago1:16:24

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This week we dive into the post-apocalypse gender studies comic series 'Y: The Last Man', and the innovative silent films of Buster Keaton. Discussion topics include secret George Washington spy rings, distinguishing your Busters from your Humphreys, early-2000s feminism, and early-1920s eroticism.For links, references, and more info, check us out …

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May 21, 2018 0:58

7y ago0:58

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Trivia

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Episode 12 - The Return 1:00:09

10+ y ago1:00:09

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It has been almost one year since the boys of PlayedSawWatching have gathered together to discuss games, movies, tv, and MMA. Driven apart by work, family, and perhaps a slight resentment of Evan, they have barely spoken during their respective hiatus' (hiatuses?), but finally...they have returned. Except for Evan. Screw that guy.…

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Episode 11 - Off the Rails 1:15:15

11+ y ago1:15:15

1:15:15

The PlayedSawWatching podcast gets off topic this week. A few times.By PlayedSawWatching

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Episode 10 - Fact Checking 1:17:37

11+ y ago1:17:37

1:17:37

The PlayedSawWatching podcast has no idea if Simon Pegg is in Mob City or not.By PlayedSawWatching

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Episode 9 - Breaking Bad Spoilercast 39:21

11+ y ago39:21

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Now that Breaking Bad is over, the PSW boys (minus Paul, that slacker) have a spoiler-filled discussion about the show in it's entirety. If you have not seen all of the show, something will be ruined for you. You have been warned.By PlayedSawWatching

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Episode 8 - Censoring Paul 1:28:27

11+ y ago1:28:27

1:28:27

The Podcast has to have it's first ever censor bleep. As expected, it was because of Paul.By PlayedSawWatching

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Episode 7 - Technical Difficulties 1:13:40

11+ y ago1:13:40

1:13:40

The PSWPodcast is back and on Skype! The boys catch up on things they missed, make fun of Paul when he has technical difficulties, and discover that they all have Trypophobia.By PlayedSawWatching

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Episode 6 - Cebrepow 1:28:23

12y ago1:28:23

1:28:23

In this episode, the boys find out what a Daddy Nelson is, discuss well-known genocidal maniacs, give Paul a new nickname, and come up with an odd new way to say "cerebral palsy".By PlayedSawWatching

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Episode 5 - Everybody Hates Evan 1:20:19

12y ago1:20:19

1:20:19

In this episode, the PlayedSawWatching crew learns that their audience has dirty, dirty minds...and hates Evan.By PlayedSawWatching

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Episode 4 - Welcome Shawn 1:19:52

12y ago1:19:52

1:19:52

The regular podcast crew welcome special guest Shawn (aka Josh's barber), and they discus UFC 163, Everquest Next, the new Wolverine movie, and more!By PlayedSawWatching

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Episode 3 - Mussolini's Birthday 1:07:01

12y ago1:07:01

1:07:01

In this episode the boys wish a happy birthday to their very own Paul Miller, and also to Benito Mussolini. Plus they introduce the Hero and Douchebag of the Week and 30 Seconds of Game Time segments.By PlayedSawWatching

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Episode 2 - Thunderstorm 1:06:08

12y ago1:06:08

1:06:08

The guys lose power and huddle together in fear in this episode of the PlayedSawWatching podcast.By PlayedSawWatching

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Episode 1 - Sum Ting Wong 1:00:45

12y ago1:00:45

1:00:45

In this inaugural episode of the PlayedSawWatching podcast, Max, Josh, Evan, and Paul talk about everything from racist newscasts to MMA.By PlayedSawWatching

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My Podcasting Setup

12+ y ago

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My Equipment: Mackie PROFX12 12-Channel Compact Effects Mixer with USB Sony MDR7506 Professional Large Diaphragm Headphone Roland R-05 Studio WAVE/MP3 Recorder Transcend 32 GB Class 10 SDHC Flash Memory Card (TS32GSDHC10E) (for the Roland R-05) Griffin Technology iMic USB Audio Device Doctor Who TARDIS USB Hub Doctor Who TARDIS USB Hub Model #DR115…

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Upgrading JotRod to Rails 3.1.3

13+ y ago

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When preparing to add some layout features to JotRod, I realized it was a Rails 3.0.9 application. Here's a quick rundown on upgrading to Rails 3.1.3.Download 164.7 MBDownload (iPod & iPhone) 37.9 MBTake the 2011 Readers SurveyBy Teach Me To Code Screencasts HD

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Followers and Following

13+ y ago

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In order to get someone a timeline in JotRod, we need followers and following lists to compile the Jots from. This means that we need to add a new ColumnFamily called Followers and another one called Following. We don't have the joins capability from relational databases to do this for us.I'm going to hijack the User model's database connection to …

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ActiveModel Callbacks

13+ y ago

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In the Jots (like tweets) in JotRod, I needed to generate a hash on creation as the key for the Jots. So, I determined that the easiest way to do that was to include ActiveModel Callbacks.The module is pretty simple to add to your classes. Here's a demo of how to add it to Sandra.Sandra's repositoryJotRod's repositoryDownload 223 MBDownload (iPod &…

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Model Generator

13+ y ago

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Here's an introduction to creating a Rails connector gem for an ORM with a model generator.Download 352.3 MBDownload (iPod & iPhone) 84.7 MBTake the 2011 Readers SurveyBy Teach Me To Code Screencasts HD

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Introduction to Sandra: The Cassandra ORM

13+ y ago

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When I started playing with Cassandra, I wound up writing part of an ORM to get what I needed from it.I want to build actual projects with Rails, Ruby, or other technologies for my videos rather than just narrowly demonstrate a piece of technology. So, I'm bringing you up to speed with Sandra so that as I continue with the Twitter Clone, you'll kno…

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Ruby Koans

14y ago

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I’m working on another Cassandra demo, but didn’t have time to finish, so I decided to show you Ruby Koans. It’s a very interesting test-driven approach to learning Ruby. I hope you enjoy it.Download 52.5 MBDownload (iPod & iPhone) 31.1 MBTake the 2011 Readers SurveyBy Teach Me To Code Screencasts HD

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Cassandra Basic Schema and Ruby Gem

14y ago

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You can get cassandra at cassandra.apache.org and the ruby gem by running:gem install cassandraI did run into a problem with the trift_client gem when installing. If you get a Load Error, run this.sudo chmod 644 /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/thrift_client-0.6.3/lib/thrift_client/*.rbsudo chmod 755 /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/thrift_client…

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Create a ‘Like’ or ‘+1′ button with make_flaggable

14y ago

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With the recent release of the Google Plus beta (ask me for an invite if you want one), I felt it appropriate to show a simple way to create a Like or +1 button for your Rails application. The app and concept is pretty simple, so I won't worry about posting the code below.Install:gem 'make_flaggable', :git => 'git://github.com/cavneb/make_flaggable…

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Building a Star-Rating System in Ruby on Rails with jQuery

14y ago

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Specification Clicking a star rating turns on the stars to the left of the star I clicked. Clicking a star submits the star rating. When I refresh the page, the star ratings should be persistent.We’ll be using Rails’ functions including: form_for hidden_field Rails HelpersWe’ll be using jQuery functions including: click each ajax

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Capistrano: Deploying Ruby on Rails Applications to Multiple Servers

14y ago

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For a basic deployment recipe, check out Basic Deployment with CapistranoThis episode demonstrates how to extend deployment to deploy to stage and production. Overall it’s rather simple. All it entails is creating a new task for each stage you want to deploy to with the settings you need changed.Here’s an example:task :stage dorole :web, "stage.tea…

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Polymorphism with Many-to-Many Associations – A Teach Me To Code Tutorial 20:03

14y ago20:03

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Polymorphic associations are very simple, as are many-to-many associations. When you blend the two, it's not nearly as simple. Since there isn't a working build-in mechanism for many-to-many polymorphic associations.Here's a quick demo of what happens if you try to set up a traditional has_many :through association with a polymorphic association. I…

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Many to Many Associations in Ruby on Rails – A Teach Me To Code Tutorial

14y ago

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I had several requests in UserVoice to provide a Many to Many tutorial in Rails. This is a demonstration of how to put together a "has and belongs to many" association and a "has many through" association.This is somewhat basic to Ruby on Rails, but important if you need to associate different models.Download 161.3 MBDownload iPhone & iPod 97.7 MB…

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Acceptance Tests with RSpec and Capybara 27:14

14y ago27:14

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On the Ruby Rogues podcast I mentioned that I had moved away from Cucumber to RSpec and Capybara for my integration tests. Here's a demo on how to do some TDD with RSpec and Capybara.Download 180.6 MBDownload iPhone & iPod 109.2 MBBy Teach Me To Code Screencasts HD

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CoffeeScript: The Cool Parts

14y ago

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CoffeeScript offers more than nice syntax for setting and managing data and functions. It also offers Classes, Inheritance, access to a 'super' method, Ruby-style string interpolation, easy variable and function bindings, and chained comparisons.Here's the code I showed in the video:class Vehicle constructor: (@name) -> move: (miles) -> console.log…

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Rails 3.1 Beta – Sprockets, CoffeeScript, and JQuery – A Teach Me To Code Tutorial

14y ago

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Ruby on Rails 3.1 is moving to use Sprockets to compile CoffeeScript into JavaScript and include JQuery in it's JavaScript by default.This is a quick demo of how it all hangs together to manage your JavaScript in Rails 3.1.Download 65.7 MBDownload (iPod & iPhone) 41.4 MBBy Teach Me To Code Screencasts HD

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CoffeeScript Basics – A Teach Me To Code Tutorial

14y ago

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CoffeeScript is now going to be a default installation with Ruby on Rails. So, I installed CoffeeScript and NodeJS and have been playing with it for the last hour or so.Here are the basics you need to know to use CoffeeScript including functions, arrays, hashes (objects), control functions (if, else, unless) and loops.In my opinion it is friendlier…

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Single Table Inheritance – Ruby on Rails Tutorial

14y ago

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Single Table Inheritance is a great way to handle related models that descend from the same class. The classic example is a Car class with Ford, Chevy, and Honda subclasses.This Ruby on Rails Tutorial provides an example and explains how Rails puts all of the information in the same database table and allows you to query things from both the superc…

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Compass, SASS, and the 960 Grid System – Delicious Clone

14y ago

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In preparing to show off SASS, I found the Compass system, which uses SASS and organizes your stylesheets in a unique way. In this tutorial, I walk you though installing compass, installing the 960 grid system, and organizing your SASS stylesheets in an intelligent way.One note, I couldn't remember the URL for the 960 grid system. It's http://960.g…

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Creating a Rake Task to Convert ERB to HAML

14y ago

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This is a basic demonstration of adding a rake task to Ruby on Rails. Some of the same principles apply to Rake in general. You also see how to call out to the command line and how to convert ERB and HTML to HAML.Download 51.9 MBDownload (iPod & iPhone) 30.8 MBBy Teach Me To Code Screencasts HD

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Creating Bookmarks – Delicious Clone

14y ago

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This is a basic implementation of creating bookmarks for our delicious clone using the Rails built in REST.I also found out that you need the haml-rails gem in order to get your views to generate in HAML.Download 255.3 MBDownload (iPhone & iPod) 119.2 MBBy Teach Me To Code Screencasts HD

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CanCan: Setting Permissions – Delicious Clone

14+ y ago

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In this installment in the Delicious Clone, we use CanCan to set some permissions on the Bookmarks Controller.Next week, we'll finish the bookmark creation process and the following, we'll add styling with SASS.Download 133.9 MB Download (iPhone & iPod) 55.9 MBBy Teach Me To Code Screencasts HD

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Faster Testing with Parallel Tests

14+ y ago

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Run your tests faster with parallel_tests gem using all the cores you have on your computer.DownloadDownload (iPhone & iPod)By Teach Me To Code Screencasts HD

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Switching to HAML – Delicious Clone

14+ y ago

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This is a quick demonstration of how to switch your Rails 3 application to HAML from ERB.By Teach Me To Code Screencasts HD

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Setting Up And Testing Devise – Delicious Clone

14+ y ago

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Because I'm going to be testing in cucumber sections of the site that require a user to be logged in, I decided to get it out of the way. So, in this video, I write a cucumber feature to test login and round it off with a few tests on the devise generated user model to make sure it continues to behave as I expect it to as I update it throughout the…

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Rails 3.0.3 Setup – Delicious Clone

14+ y ago

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Here is what I've done to create this application: Use the 'rails new' command to create a rails application Set up the Gemfile Configure the Database Install Cucumber Install Rspec Install Devise Install CanCan Install jQuery Configure DeviseDownload (HD) 84.2 MBDownload (iPod & iPhone) 47.4 MBBy Teach Me To Code Screencasts HD

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How to Create a Countdown Timer with Javascript

14+ y ago

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This video demonstrates how to build a countdown timer with the setInterval function in Javascript, a text field, and jQuery to update your text field.Download 70.8 MBDownload (iPhone & iPod) 40.6 MBBy Teach Me To Code Screencasts HD

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Basic Deployment with Capistrano

14+ y ago

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Capistrano has been the most popular way to deploy Ruby and Rails applications for a long time. This video provides a quick demonstration of a basic recipe for deploying a Rails 3 application.I made this video a while ago and I realized that I never posted it. Here is a very basic recipe for deploying with Capistrano.Download 30.1 MBDownload (iPhon…

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Managing Branches with Git

14+ y ago

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I'm trying something new and using the YouTube player. Let me know if you see any differences.In this video, I demonstrate how to create, merge, and delete local and remote branches in Git.Git is a Source Control Management system written by Linus Torvalds for managing development on the Linux operating system.Download (29.3 MB)Download (iPhone & i…

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OAuth with the Twitter Gem

14+ y ago

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Twitter just turned off Basic Auth and is forcing application developer to use OAuth. Here is a demonstration of how to add Twitter OAuth to your Ruby on Rails Application.Download 90.9 MBDownload (iPod & iPhone) 45.6 MBBy Teach Me To Code Screencasts HD

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Faking Sinatra with Rack and Metaprogramming

14+ y ago

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Sinatra has a really nice DSL. You can fake the basics of the DSL with some simple Rack middleware created by metaprogramming.If you like the screencasts, please give $5 to help me get to RubyConf Download (64.2 MB)Download iPhone & iPod (35.6 MB)By Teach Me To Code Screencasts HD

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Rack Basics

15y ago

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Rack is the basis for most major web frameworks in Ruby (like Ruby on Rails.) This video gives a basic overview on how it is used and what features make it a powerful component for Ruby Web FrameworksDownload 36 MBDownload (iPod & iPhone) 25 MBBy Teach Me To Code Screencasts HD

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Rails 3 – Build a Blog – Part 3: Edit and Delete CRUD

15y ago

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This is the continuation of the Rails 3 Build a Blog series. This episode includes implementation of the Edit and Destroy methods on the Posts Controller. There are a lot of things left to cover on Rails 3, but this gets you the basics of the MVC framework and how to use Cucumber to build your application using BDD.Download 361.3 MBDownload (iPhone…

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Rails 3 Documentation: Generate Your Own

15y ago

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In this screencast, I show you how to generate the api and guides for offline viewing.Download 28MBDownload iPhone/iPod 7MBBy Teach Me To Code Screencasts HD

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Upgrading Rails 3.0 Beta4 to Rails 3.0 Release Candidate

15y ago

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This video goes over some issues that popped up while upgrading a Rails 3 application to the Release CandidateThis video goes over some issues that popped up while upgrading a Rails 3 application to the Release Candidate.Download 131 MBDownload (iphone & ipod) 11.7 MBBy Teach Me To Code Screencasts HD

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