Ajax in my Ruby - Rails Too

You got your Ajax in my Ruby
I signed up for Textdrive this week. I selected Rails as the open source project I wanted to support. Right now only Rails interests me on the server side. Ajax in exquisite synergy allows the client experience to be enhanced as well.

The taste sensation of the Rails/Ajax sweetmeat lies in baking Ajax right into the framework. Through the object-oriented Javascript library Prototype and a set of helper tags, Rails is making Ajax part of the process of developing web applications rather than another layer to be grafted on in a completely different way (and historically by a different person or team). To quote David Heinemeier Hansson, chief Ruby on Rails wrangler: "Instead of trying to soften the blow of doing client-side Javascript libraries as many others are doing, we've gone ahead and more or less removed the need for hand-written client-side javascript entirely."