Janna, this was mentioned at Railsconf 2009 during the Rails Core Panel talk. It was actually the second question from the start of the talk. In short, one should understand the underlying technologies instead of trying to always abstracting it away.
-Conrad On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 11:04 AM, JannaB <[email protected]> wrote: > > And I further agree with you -- I think we all need to bite the bullet > and become js experts rather than depending on Rails to do it for us. > The problem is, if I look at all this JS that I am seeing in this > example, I am trying to discern where in my rails app I pick up these > values? -Janna B. > > On Jun 26, 2:02 pm, JannaB <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks Fred, > > Yes, this is immensely frustrating -- I've lost 3 days working on > > this, and looking at examples that don;t cut it -- there is a vacuum > > of documentation really, and it seems to be a very RoR thing "Yes, > > this is fast and easy to do in RoR with this library/plugin/gem," but > > when you go to actually do it, you are left with total trial and > > error. > > > > No wonder the dork frameworks like Java Struts are so much more > > prevelant. In truth, those frameworks may just be faster and easier to > > use -- I've been trying to accomplish things here that frankly don;t > > pay off in terms of the time curve. No one seems to know how to use > > the Scritpatuclous library's aside from mickey mouse effects. > > > > -Janna B. > > > > On Jun 25, 11:43 am, Frederick Cheung <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > On Jun 25, 3:32 pm, JannaB <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > If I look at a page with a Scriptaculous example like: > > > anks Fred > > > >http://www.gregphoto.net/sortable/advanced/ > > > > > > And I can view the html/js source of the page -- my question becomes, > > > > how do I implement this, or wire this into, my rails app? -Janna B > > > > > You need to , one way or another, generate the javascript that sets up > > > the scriptaculous stuff (ie create instances of Sortable for > > > appropriate dom elements and so on). There are helpers > > > (draggable_element and so ) that sort of do this for you but > > > personally I feel that most of that stuff is a bit of a crutch and > > > that you'd be better off biting the bullet and learning enough > > > javascript/scriptaculous that you can just write it on your own. > > > > > Fred > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
