From: Walton Hoops <me@...>
Date: 2013-06-14T09:52:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Can I use Sinatra to render dynamic pages?

On 6/13/2013 4:11 PM, Ruby Student wrote:
> Rick,
>
> Thank you for your quick reply. Although I am trying to avoid 
> javascript, I'll take a look at the links.
>
> Thanks again

The unfortunate truth is that when doing anything in the browser other 
than rendering static content, JavaScript is required (ignoring browser 
plugins like flash, silverlight, etc).  A web server, by itself cannot 
change the page once it's been rendered.

There are attempts to make JavaScript more palatable (CoffeeScript, 
ClojureScript, etc), however I highly recommend becoming comfortable 
with JavaScript (and possibly a helper like jQuery) BEFORE using any of 
these, as with any of these it's still important to understand what's 
happening under the hood.