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Issue 158

From Issue #158
June 2007

Jun 01, 2007  By Reuven M. Lerner
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The power of Ajax to fetch and run JavaScript generated by your server-side language.
Conclusion

When I first read about RJS templates, I thought it was one of the weirdest ideas I had heard of. That's because the notion of writing JavaScript in Ruby seemed both strange and unnecessary. I now understand the power and cleverness of this type of template and look forward to using it on many of my Ajax-powered sites. With a bit of study and some changes in how you think about Web development, you're likely to make the same discovery.

Resources

There are many good printed and on-line resources for learning about Ajax. One of my favorite sites is ajaxian.com, in which the authors discuss and review Ajax-related tools.

Two good books might come in handy. The Pragmatic Programmers have published a second edition of the award-winning Agile Development in Rails by Dave Thomas and David Heinemeier-Hansson, and O'Reilly has released Ajax on Rails by Scott Raymond. Between these two books, you should expect to get a full understanding of not only how Ruby on Rails works, but also how to use JavaScript and RJS to create interesting and dynamic Web applications.

Reuven M. Lerner, a longtime Web/database consultant, is a PhD candidate in Learning Sciences at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. He currently lives with his wife and three children in Skokie, Illinois. You can read his Weblog at altneuland.lerner.co.il.

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Submitted by nnoel on Fri, 05/11/2007 - 06:58.

I think you have to send the correct form id in the submit_to_remote
:submit => "theForm" in place of :submit => "fakeForm"

(or changing the form id to fakeForm)

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