On January 24, I discussed a not-very-focused book on Ajax, and mentioned its diversion to a discussion of Rails: "Near the end of the journey, we detour to Ruby on Rails, and finally get to its ...

Builders of Ruby on Rails, the Web development framework that has been around for more than 12 years, have removed the popular jQuery JavaScript library from the default Rails stack in favor of a ...

The Ruby on Rails application framework and the Ajax programming language are together becoming a "dream team" for small business Web developers. To make the combo even more attractive, they're ...

The star addition to Rails 1.1 is RJS, which enables JavaScript calls in Ruby code and simplifies AJAX (asynchronous JavaScript and XML)-style programming. Tasks that previously required more ...