jQuery on Rails Talk

For those in the Colorado Springs area, I’ll be giving a talk tomorrow at Panera Bread for the Not Just Ruby (NJR) group on the merits of jQuery as your JavaScript framework of choice when building Ruby on Rails apps. The talk is both an intro to jQuery (in some sense) as well as how to make jQuery easy to use after I have weened you off of the out-of-the-box Rails helpers. You’ll learn to write unobtrusive JavaScript code, support graceful degradation, not open yourself up to security holes, and more.

For those of you who would like to get a jumpstart on the talk, here are the files I’ll be using for the talk:

• OmniOutliner Outline (4KB)
• Ruby on Rails Demo App (1.5MB)

In the strange event that you are not able to install the necessary gems needed to run the Ruby on Rails demo provided above, then you can goof around with the live version here if you like. I know the demo doesn’t look like much but its what is happening under the covers that will be of interest.

See you at the meeting tomorrow!

Tags: jQuery, Ruby, Ruby on Rails