Ajax on Rails

• Introduction
• Getting Our Feet Wet
• Introducing Prototype
• Introducing script.aculo.us
• RJS
• Ajax Usability
• Testing and Debugging
• Security
• Performance
• Prototype Reference
• script.aculo.us Reference
• Review Quiz
• Photo Gallery
• Intranet Workgroup Collaboration
• Colophon

• Introduction
  • Who This Book Is For
  • What Ajax Is
  • What Rails Is
  • 'You Got Your Ajax in My Rails!'
  • Getting Up to Speed
  • Summary
• Getting Our Feet Wet
  • The Old-Fashioned Way
  • JavaScript Libraries and Prototype
  • Bringing Rails into the Picture
  • Summary
• Introducing Prototype
  • Setting the Stage
  • Ajax Links
  • Forms
  • Ajax Forms
  • Buttons
  • Form Observers
  • Summary
• Introducing script.aculo.us
  • Visual Effects
  • Drag and Drop
  • Summary
• RJS
  • Instructions Instead of Data
  • Putting the R in RJS
  • A Real-World Example
  • Summary
• Ajax Usability
  • Principles of Usability
  • The Context of the Web
  • Usability on the Web
  • Cross-Platform Development
  • Summary
• Testing and Debugging
  • Debugging
  • Testing
  • Summary
• Security
  • Healthy Skepticism: Don't Trust User Input
  • Hashing Passwords
  • Silencing Logs
  • The Same-Origin Policy
  • The Use and Abuse of HTTP Methods
  • Encryption and Secure Certificates
  • The Rails Security Mailing List
  • Summary
• Performance
  • Development and Production Environments
  • Session Stores
  • Output Caching
  • Asset Packaging
  • Dealing with Long-Running Tasks
  • Summary
• Prototype Reference
  • Ajax Support
  • DOM Manipulation
  • Core Extensions
• script.aculo.us Reference
  • Visual Effects
  • Drag and Drop
  • Controls
  • Element Extensions
  • DOM Builder
  • JavaScript Unit Testing
  • Utility Methods
• Review Quiz
• Photo Gallery
• Intranet Workgroup Collaboration
• Colophon