Chapter 13. Prototype, Scriptaculous, and Rails
This chapter covers
- Understanding the Rails approach to generating JavaScript on the server
- Using the Rails Ajax helpers to work with Prototype and Scriptaculous
- Accessing Scriptaculous’s advanced features from Rails
- Using Rails RJS templates to solve the multiple-update problem, and for other advanced techniques
Our main aim in this book has been to explore Prototype and Scriptaculous as standalone JavaScript libraries, independent of any server-side technologies. In our opinion, these libraries can increase your productivity in developing Ajax solutions with any server-side stack. However, there is no getting away from the fact that both Prototype and Scriptaculous are strongly allied with the ...
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