…Prototype JavaScript helpers in favor of Unobtrusive JavaScript ( UJS). The implementation of Unobtrusive JavaScript and the consequent removal of the old inline AJAX commands offers at least three advantages:
Less verbose, inline, behavior code in the HTML document, with the result of much more lightweight, cleaner and readable source code
Rails 3 is no longer Prototype-oriented. With Rails 3 you can easily switch from a JavaScript framework to an other.
Rails…
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…Unobtrusive JavaScript technique - Simone Carletti's Blog - UJS for dummies. Author's words, not mine.
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…the Unobtrusive JavaScript in Rails 3 when I realized the UJS section was becoming large enough to deserve a separate post. So here's my Unobtrusive JavaScript for dummies explanation. If you don't know what Unobtrusive Javascript term means, this technique reflects what happened a few years ago with HTML pages when Cascading Style Sheets ( CSS) were introduced. Before CSS, the presentation of HTML elements was defined inline. Did you remember the ugly font …
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…Javascript made it into Rails 3. At first, we thought UJS wasn't going to be included in Rails 3. Well, just before the first beta came out, the community responded well and a bunch of enthusiastic developers finished up one of the most wanted feature in Rails 3.
Rails has always been about staying on the cutting edge and Rails 3 is no surprise, UJS implementation in Rails 3 takes benefit of the new HTML5 data-* @ attributes. So Rails doesn't spit out …
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almost two months later, I'm still have trouble swallowing the UJS kool-aid. @ jamis
Funny how the JS people get all shocked and dismayed when jamis complains about UJS . Evidence of kool-aid. @rjs
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…been using this tool, and it's been working well for us.
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This raises the question: what do you do instead? Well, you have to use UJS . Only, UJS in Rails isn't super mature yet; there's a lot of manual labor involved simply trying to work around the absence of "link_to_function".
So, I set to work. Initially, I tried to copy what rails.js was doing (for Ajax operations, etc.): I installed a handler, and examined the triggering element to see what operations match: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 document …
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Are you bleeding on the edge of rails 3 and need to handle shim up some unobtrusive JavaScript to work with your link_to code that use a :method option? I did today and here is what I did to solve it. If you are familiar with the problem, and and what has been happening in rails 3 and UJS, check out Piotr Solnica's blog for a good run down. Or you can check out the simple line code block below.
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…Rails developers that aren't believers in Unobtrusive Javascript ( UJS). I have to purge this book from my bookcase now that I am a big UJS convert:) I hope you understand. I got this when it first came out, before I had seen the light. Seriously though, if you don't care about UJS principles, this book covers good ground on using AJAX Rails helpers. You should realize that the book was written pre-2.0 ( Rails release that is). Also those wanting to branch out on their …
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