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Specification Clicking a star rating turns on the stars to the left of the star I clicked. Clicking a star submits the star rating. When I refresh the page, the star ratings should be persistent. We’ll be using Rails’ functions including: form_for hidden_field Rails Helpers We’ll be using jQuery functions including: click each ajax <code> [...]

  Ruby on Rails 3.1 is moving to use Sprockets to compile CoffeeScript into JavaScript and include JQuery in it’s JavaScript by default. This is a quick demo of how it all hangs together to manage your JavaScript in Rails 3.1.

Are you testing your JavaScript? Learn how to add specs using Jasmine. This episode also covers jQuery integration with jasmine-jquery.

With the jQuery Tokeninput plugin it is easy to add an autocompleting list of entries for a many-to-many association.

To mark AJAX's birthday on 18th March, we've put together a screencast to show you how to create your very own AJAX-updating countdown website for the big day. We're using Haml, Sinatra and jQuery to do this and recommend you look at our introduction videos if you're not familiar with...

The default Delicious Bookmark Button is obtrusive and broken when you switch off JavaScript. We show you how to improve and build an unobtrusive one with jQuery. Links Default Delicious Save Buttons What you'll learn How to build an unobtrusive JavaScript Delicious Bookmark Button with jQuery How to url encode...

Overview Throughout your web development career you may be required to develop sites that can function when JavaScript is switched off. This may be required because of security or accessibility policies, or perhaps just plain old ideology. Graceful Degradation is a term used to describe designing websites so that they...

Overview This screencast will show you how to use some of jQuery’s core functionality, including accessing attributes, manipulating HTML, transversing the document, applying effects and handling events. We’ll show you how to setup a page with an article and two forms (sign in and sign up) that dynamically hides and...

Overview jQuery has an arsenal of tools for you to include dynamic data in your web application. There are many different techniques which may suit one situation over another. In this screencast we'll show you several ways that jQuery can load information off the web, which you can start using...

Here is what I’ve done to create this application: Use the ‘rails new’ command to create a rails application Set up the Gemfile Configure the Database Install Cucumber Install Rspec Install Devise Install CanCan Install jQuery Configure Devise Download (HD) 84.2 MB Download (iPod & iPhone) 47.4 MB