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jQuery+ Ruby + Rails
Boston Ruby Group - July 2007
John Resig (ejohn.org)Download this:
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What is jQuery?
• An open source JavaScript library that simplifies the interaction between HTML and JavaScript.
• Fully documented
• Great community
• Tons of plugins
• Small size (20kb)
• Everything works in IE 6+, Firefox,Safari 2+, and Opera 9+
Why jQuery?
Complete Focus:
• Find some elements
• Do something with them
Find Some Elements...
• Full CSS 1-3 Support
• Basic XPath
• Better CSS support than most browsers
$(“div”)
<div id=”body”> <h2>Some Header</h2> <div class=”contents”> <p>...</p> <p>...</p> </div></div>
$(“#body”)
<div id=”body”> <h2>Some Header</h2> <div class=”contents”> <p>...</p> <p>...</p> </div></div>
$(“div > div”)
<div id=”body”> <h2>Some Header</h2> <div class=”contents”> <p>...</p> <p>...</p> </div></div>
$(“div[div]”)
<div id=”body”> <h2>Some Header</h2> <div class=”contents”> <p>...</p> <p>...</p> </div></div>
• Events (click, hover, toggle)
• DOM Manipulation (append, prepend, remove)
• Effects (hide, show, slideDown, fadeOut)
• AJAX (load, get, post)
Features
Events
• $(“form input:last”).click(function(){ $(“#menu”).slideDown(“slow”);});
DOM Manipulation
• $(“a[@target]”) .append(“ (Opens in New Window)”);
• $(“#body”).css({ border: “1px solid green”, height: “40px”});
Effects
• $(“#menu”).slideDown(“slow”);
• $(“div”).hide(500,function(){ $(this).show(500);});
AJAX
• $(“#body”).load(“sample.html”);
• $.getScript(“test.js”);
• $(“div”).hide();
• $(“div”).hide().color(”blue”);
• $(“div”).hide().color(”blue”).slideDown();
Chaining
Live Demo
Accordion Menu
Plugins
• Drag and Drop
• Sortables
• Tabbed Navigation
• Sortable Tables
• And hundreds more...
• Very active mailing list
• 108+ Posts/Day
• 2500+ Members
• Technorati: 22+ blog posts per day
Community
Who uses jQuery?
• IBM
• MSNBC
• Technorati
• Drupal
• Wordpress
• Digg
• many others...
Books
• 4 Books in Progress:
• Learning jQuery (Packt)
• jQuery Reference (Packt)
• jQuery Quickly (Manning)
• Designing with jQuery (Manning)
Future
• “jQuery UI”
• Themeing
• Internationalization
Using jQuery with Rails
• Most jQuery use is non different than normal jQuery use
• $(“div”).remove(); // works on any site
• Considerations come in with dealing with Ajax requests
Ajax and Rails
• Just another request to a controller/action
• You might want to respond like so: respond_to do |format| format.js { # do stuff } end
• jQuery sends the right headers so you can respond easily
Ajax with jQuery
• Typically, you’ll reply with an HTML chunk
• jQuery handles this gracefully:$(“#stuff”).load(“controller/action”);
Reply with JSON
• Sometimes you’ll want to reply with a data structure for further manipulation
• ActiveRecord objects have to_json serialization built in:"{attributes:{foo: \"bar\", baz: \"bat\"}}"
• Or you can get specific: @ar_object.attributes.to_json #=> "{foo: \"bar\", baz: \"bat\"}"
Where does the JS go?
• jQuery dictates good separation of content, style, and behavior
• Put all your code in application.js
• jQuery and Prototype can play nicely together:jQuery.noConflict();jQuery(function($){ /* your code */ });
• More info in the docs
Where’s RJS?
• RJS says that sending back code (from the server) is the best way to do things
• This is overkill, simplify and extract what you’re trying to achieve
RJS v. jQuery-style
• With RJS:<a href=”#” id=’myid’ onclick=”return someFunction(‘myid’);”>text</a><a href=”#” id=’myid2’ onclick=”return someFunction(‘myid2’);”>text</a>
• With jQuery:<a href=”...” id=”myid”>text</a><a href=”...” id=”myid2”>text</a><script>$(“a”).click(someFunction);</script>
Helpers
• Say you have a link that makes an Ajax call and updates some div with the response:<a href='/foo/bar' rel='#baz' class='remote'>Update Baz</a>
• You might write a simple line of jQuery code to handle it:$("a.remote").click(function() { $(this.rel).load(this.href) })
Helpers (cont.)
• You could then write a Rails helper to reuse it:def remote_link text, url_hash, update = nil link_to(text, url_hash, :class => "remote", :rel => update)end
• You could then call it as:remote_link "Update Baz", {:controller => "foo", :action => "bar"}, "#baz"
More info:
• jQuery with Rails:
• http://yehudakatz.com/2007/01/31/using-jquery-in-rails-part-i/
• http://yehudakatz.com/2007/05/18/railsconf-talk-recap/
• jQuery Rails Plugin:
• http://yehudakatz.com/2007/05/17/jquery-on-rails-a-fresh-approach/
• http://yehudakatz.com/2007/05/25/10/
• http://yehudakatz.com/2007/05/26/jquery-on-rails-a-still-very-alpha-update/
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