Posts tagged with: "jquery"

With the release of Rails 3.1.0 last night most Rails devs were rejoicing. (You can view the Rails 3.1 Release Notes here). But of course, as the Rails community is comprised of an alarming level of passionate developers, most of us could predict a few diva-style outbursts about the new changes this morning.

Of all of the new tools that I've picked up using for development in the past six months, there is one that has come to stand above the others for its nearly universal utility. That tool is Guard.

Guard is a RubyGem but don't let that fool you into thinking it's only useful for Ruby projects. Guard is essentially an autotest for everything. It provides a general purpose set of tools for watching when files are changed in your project and taking action based on it. You can use it to do just about anything, but common uses will include:

I tell myself that I write JS every day, but I don’t. I write jQuery. Don’t get me wrong, it gets the job done. But it never feels right. Now, jQuery and its DOM-centric approach (at least in common usage) aren’t all to blame. Its just as much my fault in that beyond the library, I know very little about the language. I intend to do something about it. I have a plan and I’m going to share it with you. First, here are my goals:

If you've upgraded to the recently released jQuery 1.5, you may have heard about the fancy new AJAX facilities that allow you to define things in novel ways.

Tired of file uploading from 1999? Get with the future with jquery-binaryUpload, a jQuery plugin to make your file uploading asynchronous and stylish. Progress bar included!