I’ll explain that ^ later.
Last week my benevolent employer was kind enough to send me to Atlanta, Georgia for Big Nerd Ranch’s Ruby & Ruby on Rails Bootcamp. All I can say is “awesome”. I wish I’d paid for it myself so I could say it was the best money I’ve ever spent. If you’re interested in learning Rails, go right now and sign up for the one they’ve got early next year in Germany. If you’re interested in programming on OS X, or for the iPhone, I’m betting those classes are even better (if such a thing is possible), as Cocoa programming is their speciality.
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So long, long ago, I was using the Rails plugin Cartographer on one of my legion unfinished projects (not the rails version at this point). Since then, google maps api has gone to the 2.0 version, dinosaurs became extinct, and alien beings from beyond the stars have enslaved the human race.
Now, I fired up the ol’ Rails today to get back into the swing of things, and of course the thing craps right out. Ok, so I’m gonna roll up the sleeves, dig into the code, and update this thing. Let’s see how it goes.
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Well, I guess we all know that Rails has fantastic JS helpers. The array of tools is geniunely staggering and useful. We’ve got RJS: so we can just write Ruby and get js.
Of course, like everyone I know, Rails Javascript has a big but. Let’s talk about your big but, Rails JS.
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