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<p>Ryan Bates, the author of <a href="http://railscasts.com">Railscasts</a>, just reached his 100th episode. Railscasts is a fantastic free resource for learning about Ruby on Rails. Congratulations, Ryan! </p> <p>To celebrate his 100th episode, he's running a <a href="http://railscasts.com/contest">contest</a> with some great prizes. The contest is to submit your own 5 Rails tips, much like Ryan did in <a href="http://railscasts.com/episodes/100">Episode 100 of Railscasts</a>. This blog post is my entry into that contest. I have posted 5 articles today which include tips on various aspects of Rails. They are:</p> <ol> <li><p><a href="http://paulbarry.com/articles/2008/04/19/sending-liquid-based-email-with-rails">Sending Liquid-based Email with Rails</a></p> <p>Find out how to let the administrative users of your application update email templates.</p></li> <li><p><a href="http://paulbarry.com/articles/2008/04/19/importing-data-with-rails">Importing Data with Rails</a></p> <p>Learn how to use Rails and object-oriented techniques to import data into your Rails app.</p></li> <li><p><a href="http://paulbarry.com/articles/2008/04/19/serving-images-stored-in-the-database-with-rails">Serving Images Stored in the Database with Rails</a></p> <p>See how to take advantage of Rails' page caching to serve images that are stored in your database.</p></li> <li><p><a href="http://paulbarry.com/articles/2008/04/19/using-activerecord-composed-of">Using ActiveRecord Composed Of</a></p> <p>Make use of the <code>composed_of</code> feature in ActiveRecord to treat multiple fields within a model as one object.</p></li> <li><p><a href="http://paulbarry.com/articles/2008/04/19/using-lowpro-to-create-autotab-using-unobtrusive-javascript-and-rails">Using Lowpro To Create Autotab using Unobtrusive JavaScript and Rails</a></p> <p>Provide your users with an easy shortcut for entering in multi-field data types like phone numbers without filling up your views with lots of JavaScript code.</p></li> </ol> <p>If you find these tips helpful, be sure to let Ryan know! :)</p>

<p>Ryan Bates, the author of <a href="http://railscasts.com">Railscasts</a>, just reached his 100th episode. Railscasts is a fantastic free resource for learning about Ruby on Rails. Congratulations, Ryan! </p> <p>To celebrate his 100th episode, he's running a <a href="http://railscasts.com/contest">contest</a> with some great prizes. The contest is to submit your own 5 Rails tips, much like Ryan did in <a href="http://railscasts.com/episodes/100">Episode 100 of Railscasts</a>. This blog post is my entry into that contest. I have posted 5 articles today which include tips on various aspects of Rails. They are:</p> <ol> <li><p><a href="http://paulbarry.com/articles/2008/04/19/sending-liquid-based-email-with-rails">Sending Liquid-based Email with Rails</a></p> <p>Find out how to let the administrative users of your application update email templates.</p></li> <li><p><a href="http://paulbarry.com/articles/2008/04/19/importing-data-with-rails">Importing Data with Rails</a></p> <p>Learn how to use Rails and object-oriented techniques to import data into your Rails app.</p></li> <li><p><a href="http://paulbarry.com/articles/2008/04/19/serving-images-stored-in-the-database-with-rails">Serving Images Stored in the Database with Rails</a></p> <p>See how to take advantage of Rails' page caching to serve images that are stored in your database.</p></li> <li><p><a href="http://paulbarry.com/articles/2008/04/19/using-activerecord-composed-of">Using ActiveRecord Composed Of</a></p> <p>Make use of the <code>composed_of</code> feature in ActiveRecord to treat multiple fields within a model as one object.</p></li> <li><p><a href="http://paulbarry.com/articles/2008/04/19/using-lowpro-to-create-autotab-using-unobtrusive-javascript-and-rails">Using Lowpro To Create Autotab using Unobtrusive JavaScript and Rails</a></p> <p>Provide your users with an easy shortcut for entering in multi-field data types like phone numbers without filling up your views with lots of JavaScript code.</p></li> </ol> <p>If you find these tips helpful, be sure to let Ryan know! :)</p>