Geoff, Zach, Trevor, Bob, Brian, and I (Scott) recently launched Timelines.com. Timelines is a place for people to record and share history about any topic. We want it to be the Wikipedia of event-based information, but unlike Wikipedia we want everyone to have a voice and add their own perspectives (and photos, videos, etc) about [...]
Geoff and I are both looking forward to RailsConf this year. Feel free to say “hello”—whether it’s to find about potential job opportunities at our startup or to thank/complain to Geoff about the new TimeZone stuff in 2.1.
I’m not sure what sessions we’ll be attending, but our first stop might be the Yehuda Katz/EY session [...]
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 [...]
Geoff and I will be attending RailsEdge in Chicago this weekend. If you see us there be sure to ask Geoff about his jQuery for Rails plugin that he has developed and that we’ve been using for the past couple of months in a number of projects.
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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