RightRails The RubyOnRails Plugin For RightJS

In case you don't know, some time ago I started a ruby-on-rails plugin for RightJS called right-rails, which was just updated to the next version 0.3.0

There are actually quite a lot of interesting and fancy stuff going on and it tries to solve many of usual headache of ajax applications development.

Like say it transparently handling files uploading for remote forms, so that there is no difference if you have or have no files on your form. Plus there is a simple javascript interface for the most common ajax operations which is super easy in use.

Then there is a new much more powerful RJS scripting replacement, that allows you write javascript in ruby and more of that mix in one flow the serverside and browserside contexts, it has automatic types conversion and lots of other things.

Then small things like transparent Prototype/Scriptaculous helpers replacement for RightJS, plus various helpers for the RightJS own features and modules, plus automatic scripts including handler, etc. etc.

If you like RightJS and do ajax stuff in rails, check it out, you'll find many helpful stuff.

Ajax Files Uploading With RightJS And Rails

I kinda stuck with the RightJS project for now and mostly write articles for the site.

But there is another interesting articles that lights up some details over the remote forms with files handling using Ruby on Rails and RightJS. There is also a link to a complete ajax photo gallery application that uses the featues.

Please take a look it is over here. I'm sure you might find some interesting stuff over there.

RightJS 1.4.0 Is Out

And by the way, forgot to mention it in here yesterday. But RightJS was released yesterday with the brand new 1.4.0 version.

Mainly performance optimizations, some bug fixes and clean ups too.

Japanese Alphabet Training Machine

I'm trying to teach myself some Japanese. Well, sort of.

So I've written the application Happy-Nippo that might help you to memorize the first two, hiragana and katakana Japanese alphabets.

Looks quite nice.

FrontCompiler Updates

FrontCompiler is a Ruby based JavaScript compression tool of mine. And I've just updated the self-builds feature of it.

Formerly it used a literal based hashes and special markers, and I've reworked it the way it used numbers and arrays, similarly how the Base62 encryption algorithm works.

Anyway. Now both, compression and decompression processes work faster, and the result builds are slightly (3-8%) smaller.

This is pretty much it. Enjoy!

RightJS Now Rocks In IE8 Too

As you probably know, the new version of RightJS is coming. I've done some optimizations in the native css-selectors support in this version and now RightJS is the fastest one in IE8 too. The only condition, it has to have a correct document definition or to be switched to the XA-Compatible mode manually.

RightJS Rocks In Firefox 3.5

A newer version of RightJS is coming, it will come with some further native method optimizations and now it beats everyone in the new upcoming Firefox 3.5