EnvyCasts

Now, I’m not usually one for plugging paid-for services. I’m an open-and-free kind of chap at heart. However, there’s no such thing as a free lunch, and while there is a free option for this particular service- that being Rails videocasts- one must be reminded that a free lunch is going to taste worse than the 5-star buffet in the nice resturant.

Anyway, enough waffle. I had first tripped over EnvyCasts on my RSS feeds through various Ruby blogs, and never got around to actually getting any. Having purchased both the Rails 2.2 and Scaling Ruby videocasts, I’m genuinely impressed. They’re of a very high quality, the explanations are excellent and the content is at a level approachable by even beginners but aimed at a higher level than most videocasts. It’s like Railscasts on steroids.

So, if you have $9 (So around £0.50), I strongly recommend picking some up if you have a spare moment.