An under-the-hood look at Backpack

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by samb • 19 years ago

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palish• 19 years ago

It's insane how much you can accomplish with Rails now, and with these new changes it'll be even better.

Yeah, Rails suffers a syndrome of "You can only do these predefined things, in this way", but they're covering more and more ground in terms of what you can do.

I predict faders will be a big thing in the near future. People fading colors from one state to another state depending on the context, and fading expansion and contraction of objects on a page, instead of sharp, sudden transitions. Implementing them in Javascript by hand is not fun, so the addition of that to RJS will be great.

jamesbritt• 19 years ago

Is this all that hard to do? There are quite a few good JavaScript libraries, some arguably better than what's baked into Rails, each offering a range of suitable UI effects.

I would prefer to have the ease of choice of such libraries (JQuery, for example, over Prototype.js) and write the not-so-hard JavaScript myself.

An under-the-hood look at Backpack

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