Category Archives: Ajax

Interesting Links: YUIRails, Ebb faster than Mongrel and thin

By Alastair | March 5, 2008

The JavaScript library I use most after prototype is YUI so a big thanks to Chetan Patil for making it much easier to use in Rails.
Ruby Inside has a post on Ebb a small and fast web server for hosting Rails and Merb applications (and soon Django).
Ebb is a small, extremely high performance Web / [...]

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Adobe Compares Flex and Ajax

By Alastair | February 6, 2008

The comparison is coming from one of the horses mouths so take it with a grain a salt. That said I think Adobe tried not to step on some Ajax toes and didn’t make a strong enough case for Flex.
It’s a good basic overview but there are a couple of things I disagree with;
Why use [...]

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Rails 2.0 and link_to_remote :with

By Alastair | January 18, 2008

I’m moving an old app to Rails 2.0 and other than fixing some routes Ajax calls with link_to_remote and the :with parameter was the only thing that gave me some trouble. In the old version I was grabbing the current value of a drop down list with Prototype and passing it along using :with like [...]

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