RJS Templates for Rails

Table of Contents

1. RJS Templates for Rails
   1. Introduction
      1. What Is RJS?
      2. Who Should Read this Document?
      3. Rails Version
      4. Acknowledgments
   2. Getting Started with a Simple Application
   3. RJS and Rails
      1. Debugging
         1. Development Mode Debugging
         2. Monitoring the Logfile
      2. ActionController
         1. Default View
         2. Layouts
         3. Rendering
         4. Inline Rendering
         5. Browser Redirection
      3. ActionView
         1. Element, Class, and Collection Proxies
            1. Element Proxies
            2. Class Proxies
            3. Collection Proxies
         2. Making Ajax Calls with Rails
      4. Helpers
   4. RJS in Practice: The Expense Tracker
      1. Creating the Models
      2. Defining the Controllers
      3. Setting Up a Route
      4. Creating an Application Layout
      5. Entering Some Data
      6. Creating the Views
      7. What We Have So Far
   5. FireBug: Awesome JavaScript Utility
      1. What Is FireBug?
      2. Installation
      3. A Brief Tour
   6. Enhancing the Expense Tracker
      1. Ajax Activity Indicator
      2. Ajax Global Responders
      3. Model Validations
      4. Adding Some Calculations
      5. Refactoring with RJS Helpers
      6. A Look Ahead
   7. RJS Reference
      1. JavaScriptGenerator
      2. JavaScriptElementProxy
      3. JavaScriptCollectionProxy
         1. Block Variables and the Enumerable methods
         2. Inspecting the Results of the Enumerations
         3. Method Reference
      4. Visual Effects
   8. Appendix
      1. Bibliography
      2. Online Resources
         1. Prototype
         2. Scriptaculous
         3. RJS
         4. Ruby on Rails