Tag Archives: rails

Rails javascript specific layout

Posted on August 3, 2010 by Danny

Recently I’ve started to favour using small snippets of js.erb for each controller action over using one monolithic javascript controller designed to run the whole application. It means you have small manageable pieces of code which are only loaded when … Continue reading →

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Acts As State Machine error handling

Posted on July 7, 2010 by Danny

What is it? Acts as state machine (AASM) is a rubygem for adding finite state machines to Ruby classes. http://github.com/rubyist/aasm. This is a widely used gem/plugin and is the de-facto standard for state management in Ruby on Rails. Whilst working … Continue reading →

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Unobtrusive javascript with Rails 2.3.5

Posted on May 11, 2010 by Danny

This is my handy little bit of javascript to make it easier to do UJS in Rails 2.3.5. Create a file within your public/javascripts folder called ajax.js containing the following: //unobtrusive javascript replacements //setup for format.js block $.ajaxSetup({ ‘beforeSend’: function(xhr) … Continue reading →

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