jQuery and Rails

rubyonrails-talk
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Any jQuery users have an example or info regarding their jQuery integration to rails apps?

I’ve found plenty of tutorials and guides on setting up jQuery and doing some simple UI tasks. But I’d really like to compare my strategies of using jQ’s ajax (etc.) in Ruby on Rails applications with other users.

Anyone have any examples?

John

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I am a member of the jQuery team, and I am currently finishing up work on the first release of jQuery on Rails, a plugin for Rails that replaces the built-in prototype stuff with jQuery.

It's not a 1:1 API rewrite, but rather an attempt to get the jQuery philosophy of unobtrusive coding into Rails. I will have a release ready for RailsConf (and I will be there as well).

-- Yehuda Katz

John Lauck wrote:

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Sounds great Yehuda! I was just browsing your blog trying to find your email address. I look forward to checking out the plugin when it’s released.

Thanks,

John

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I just posted about what I've figured out so far regarding JQuery Ajax + Rails here: Crap

I discuss how to build JQuery Ajax calls that can interact with a RESTful controller method with a respond_to block (you need to add the correct Accept header to the HTTP request before you send), and how to write JQuery Javascript via RJS -- for example:

page["#posts"].append render(:partial => 'post', :locals => {:post => @post})

outputs:

$("#posts").append("Post #29 info...");

... which JQuery can parse and execute successfully.

Interested to hear what others have been able to figure out with JQuery + Rails integration.

Geoff