From: Tony De <tonydema@...>
Date: 2008-03-19T05:51:37+09:00
Subject: Re: AJAX without Rails

Benjohn Barnes wrote:
> On 22 Nov 2007, at 00:00, James Britt wrote:
> 
>> Alex Young wrote:
>>> Deepak Vohra wrote:
>>>> Ruby on Rails is the only Ajax framework for Ruby.
>>
>> That's a laughable claim.
> 
> That expression always makes me think of this:
> 
>   http://xkcd.com/123/

I just ran across this post.  I am taking swimming lessons in Ruby, 
Rails, AJAX, and the like.  I was looking for some help on how to take 
advantage of AJAX using Ruby.  I'm wanting to start off simple with a 
call to a cgi script which will pass data back to the page updating a 
<div>.  I found Michael Neumann's post of interest as I have zero Java 
or Javascript experience. I'm an old salt at VB & Delphi coding Database 
apps.  I googled json as I didn't know what that was and also JQuery. 
So I think this all sounds pretty cool.  One question I have.  Looking 
at the JQuery info, it seems that all the page magic is coded into the 
web page itself.  I didn't see any info (perhaps that's not how JQuery 
works) on accessing the DOM elements from a cgi or ruby code.  My need 
is to process one or more files on a syslog server for information and 
pass the info back to the browser.  I could use some clarification on 
what I need to be looking for to accomplish this.  Thanks so much for 
any feedback you may have.

tonyd
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