If you’re a Web developer of any stripe, please take A List Apart’s Survey for People Who Make Web Sites 2008, as it truly is beneficial to everyone in the industry.
Remove the web, and billions in trade disappear. Websites enable people who can’t walk to run to the store. They bring knowledge and freedom of [...]
I recently tried using Dan Webb’s MinusMOR plugin, which allows you to write Javascript templates with embedded Ruby (a la .html.erb/.rhtml templates), but I was disappointed to find out it didn’t work with Edge Rails.
I found a random Pastie via Google that seemed to fix the plugin for Edge, and this worked okay, with the [...]
The jQuery Way to apply behavior to a document is to add it unobtrusively via the $(document).ready() function, ideally in an external script file… unlike the Rails Way, which is to add behavior to individual elements via inline Javascript, using the built-in view helpers.
The markup generated by these helpers is obtrusive, and often repetitive. For [...]
UPDATE
Old stuff here! See Errtheblog’s post on jQuery for more up-to-date information…
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I’ve been working on integrating jQuery’s Ajax capabilities into a Ruby on Rails application; here’s what I’ve discovered so far:
RJS templates (yes, you can use them!)
UPDATE see Javascript + embedded Ruby templates with Rails, out-of-the-box for a way to skip using RJS templates altogether [...]
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