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Ruby on Rails 0.13 Out Today with AJAX Superpowers

Posted by timothy on from the buzzword-diesel dept.

Robert J. Berger writes "The Ruby on Rails team announced that "After the longest gap between releases since Rails was made public and after more than 225 fixes and new features, the final major release before the 1.0 milestone has arrived." This is a major update to what is to many developers consider the new tool for developing sophisticated interactive database driven web applications. It integrates backend Model/View/Controller object-oriented model with AJAX based clients so that the developer can focus on the app and not on the details of basic mechanisms. You really can do much more with much less coding. The new release adds a completely rewritten visual effects engine, drag-and-drop capability including sortable lists, and autocompleting text fields to Rails. All building on top of an upgraded version of Prototype, the javascript foundation for Ajax in Rails ... Check out the very cool demos at script.aculo.us."

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  1. solaris/firefox 1.04 by Endymion · · Score: 4, Insightful

    wow... I really want to try this... I love the idea of ruby on rails, but all of this client side code is nuts.

    Of all the samples, only the shoping cart works at all on Firefox1.04 on solaris. Everything else just does nothing and renders horribly. Even the shoping cart demo fails to render things properly, even when it works.

    sigh...

    I really really really want to like this... but how is relying on the client to run code properly sane, with all the different clients out there?

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    1. Re:solaris/firefox 1.04 by thomas.galvin · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Of all the samples, only the shoping cart works at all on Firefox1.04 on solaris. Everything else just does nothing and renders horribly. Even the shoping cart demo fails to render things properly, even when it works.

      I'm running Firefox 1.0 on Solaris, and they all worked fine, albeit a bit slowly. I'm not sure what you're seeing. Perhaps one of your extensions is borking something? If your filtering .js files via adblock, for example, things would go very wrong, very quickly.

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  2. Demos by mattwarden · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Great. AJAX shopping carts. Will no one learn from the usability problems people found using Flash for such things?

    AJAX is great... for applications where the state is not particularly important (i.e., enough to be bookmarked). A product catalog and shopping cart is not one of this type.