jRails alive?

[fpanettieri]

Hi there, i've been using Rails for some personal projects and also in
my work.
Some time ago I found this project, and the first thing that came to
my mind was:

"Wow that MUST be a great combination, the agility of Rails, powered
by the simplicity of jQuery"

My problem came today when I tried to explaing a friend of mine, some
basic rails usage.
I noticed that only a little set of Rails functions works with jRails,
others, simply don't.

Can anybody tell me if the project is in any way "active"?
It's using a very old version of jQuery, and i hasn't been updated in
a long time, or at least, not its main site.

If not, I can set up a open repository and/or make a branch, so the
development of this wonderfull plugin can be continued.

My personal feeling is that something powerful, simple, and clean as
jQuery is, should be part of the normal development of a Rails app.

[katz]

jQuery would be part of Rails 3 as far as I know.
Prototype & Scriptaculous - optional for all Rails project.
You can use jRails.
Functionality lacking..
Check github.com
There are a few more jQuery and Rails related projects there.

[fturtle]

It looks like rails is going all unobtrusive with its javascript:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up0kiOJvUpI&feature=PlayList&p=2FED8DFF112D6608&index=1
http://railscasts.com/episodes/136-jquery

I wrote a short plugin at the weekend to aid me, without the need for
html5:

http://github.com/burt/js_gin/tree/master

It's not tested, it's early days, and it takes ideas from:

http://github.com/CodeOfficer/js-data-helper/tree/master

fturtle

[Christian Rishøj]

Hi

Frenzo, I've been having the same concerns as you.

Various people have set up their own branches of jrails on GitHub and
merged in various patches. See
http://github.com/aaronchi/jrails/network for an overview.

It would be nice to have an authoritative, maintained branch. I
support your idea of setting this up.

regards

Christian

[James H.]

AFAIK Rails 3 is JavaScript library agnostic. I thought Prototype/
Scriptaculous were still the default, though, per backward
compatibility?

To be honest, friends, these days I just delete Prototype/
Scriptaculous and dump jQuery into public/javascripts. I eschew Rails
JS helpers for hand-coded JS. I'm pretty tired of things like
link_to_remote dumping ugly JS into my views.

James