IBM: Build Ajax into your Web apps with Rails
Build Ajax into your Web apps with Rails
Ruby on Rails provides an excellent platform for building Web applications. Discover how to use the built-in Asynchronous JavaScript™ XML (Ajax) features of the platform to give your application the Web 2.0 rich user interface experience.
If you haven’t heard about Rails, then welcome back from your trip to planet Zorton, which is the only place you could go and not hear about Ruby on Rails over this past year. Rails is at its most appealing when it allows you to get your application and its features up and running quickly. Rails’ built-in integration with the Prototype.js library for Ajax makes it easy to build so-called rich Internet applications quickly.
This article takes you through the steps of building a Rails application. It then dives right into using the Ajax features to build the JavaScript code that reads and writes data from the server.
