Ajax on Rails
The Ajax Experience
San Francisco · May 10 - 12, 2006
About this Presentation
Ruby on Rails is a great environment for building Ajax applications. Perhaps the best thing about the platform is the developers' unwavering commitment to being leaders in this field.
This presentation will cover the latest and greatest in Rails' Ajax support. Be warned: if you attend the talk more than half an hour after reading the abstract, we may be covering new features that didn't exist yet.
- The prototype.js helpers
- The effects.js helpers
- Modifying the DOM
- Wrapping your own JavaScript in Rails helpers
- Generating JavaScript with rjs templates
President of Cognitect
Stuart Halloway is a founder and President of Cognitect, Inc. (www.cognitect.com). He is a Clojure committer, and a developer of the Datomic database.
Stuart has spoken at a variety of industry events, including StrangeLoop, Clojure/conj, EuroClojure, ClojureWest, SpeakerConf, QCon, GOTO, OSCON, RailsConf, RubyConf, JavaOne, and NFJS.
Stuart has written a number of books and technical articles. Of these, he is most proud of Programming Clojure.
Learn more about Stu's presentations on his wiki.