# Javascript & Rails future **URL:** \ **Category:** rubyonrails-talk\ **Created:** [March 14, 2011, 12:19pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/javascript-rails-future/57889 "2011-03-14T12:19:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Philippe\_Lang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/fbc32d/32.png) [@Philippe\_Lang](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/Philippe_Lang)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2011, 12:19pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/javascript-rails-future/57889/1 "2011-03-14T12:19:37Z")
Hi, David H.H. announced recently that jquery is going to be the default in Rails 3.1, and that Prototype helpers / RJS are going into a gem. What does that mean for the future? Should we progressively forget about things like javascript helpers, RJS, and all these fun parts of rails? And start coding with jquery/json in mind? I'm not against that at all, but I have to admit I find RJS really fun to use... [PGP.sig](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/uploads/short-url/dASRiDVrdKSOQA6hWF4MTLaWyCk.sig) (474 Bytes) ---
**Author:** ![Frederick\_Cheung](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/rubyonrails/user_avatar/discuss.rubyonrails.org/frederick_cheung/32/3901_2.png) [@Frederick\_Cheung](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/Frederick_Cheung)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2011, 1:16pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/javascript-rails-future/57889/2 "2011-03-14T13:16:57Z")
> Hi, > > David H.H. announced recently that jquery is going to be the default in Rails 3.1, and that Prototype helpers / RJS are going into a gem. > > What does that mean for the future? Should we progressively forget about things like javascript helpers, RJS, and all these fun parts of rails? And start coding with jquery/json in mind? > > I'm not against that at all, but I have to admit I find RJS really fun to use... I found rjs fun to use at first, but I think it becomes a bit of a crutch eventually. As far as the helpers go, while convenient they encourage a nasty way of doing javascript. Fred