Rails 1.1 and RJS Templates for Easily Ajaxifying your Webapp at sablog.com

Written by Shanti A. Braford March 31st, 2006in Ajax, Ruby, Ruby on Rails.

RJS is a templating language that allows you to write JavaScript in a native Ruby style.

Some Good RJS Links

Now, here's an absolute Must-Have RJS Debugging Snippet to drop into your rhtml page when you're playing around with this stuff:

RUBY:

<div id="debug">
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
Ajax.Responders.register({
// log the beginning of the requests
onCreate: function(request, transport) {
new Insertion.Bottom('debug', '<p><strong>[' + new Date().toString() + '] accessing ' + request.url + '</strong></p>')
},
// log the completion of the requests
onComplete: function(request, transport) {
new Insertion.Bottom('debug',
'<p><strong>http status: ' + transport.status + '</strong></p>' +
'<pre>' + transport.responseText.escapeHTML() + '</pre>')
}
});
</script>