# \[ADV\] New Pragmatic Book on Prototype and script.aculo.us

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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [May 7, 2007, 4:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/adv-new-pragmatic-book-on-prototype-and-script-aculo-us/103530 "2007-05-07T16:11:14Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 4:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/adv-new-pragmatic-book-on-prototype-and-script-aculo-us/103530/1 "2007-05-07T16:11:14Z")

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I’m happy to announce that “Prototype and [script.aculo.us](http://script.aculo.us)” by  
Christophe P. is now available in Beta, and will be in print  
this fall.

If you code Rails applications, the chances are good that you’ll want  
to include Ajax features. To some extent, you can get away with copy-  
and-paste coding, and it all just works. But it you want to get down  
and dirty, then you’ll need to know what’s going on in the browser,  
and you’ll want to exploit the full power of both Prototype (to code  
Javascript at a convenient, high level) and [script.aculo.us](http://script.aculo.us) (for all  
those cool visual effects). This is the definitive book for these two  
frameworks.

Available now (in beta) from [Pragmatic Bookshelf: By Developers, For Developers](http://pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/)  
cppsu/

Dave