# Books on Ajax Design

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/books-on-ajax-design/136144>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [April 29, 2008, 11:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/books-on-ajax-design/136144 "2008-04-29T11:01:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rory\_McKinley](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/6bbea6/32.png) [@Rory\_McKinley](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Rory_McKinley)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2008, 11:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/books-on-ajax-design/136144/1 "2008-04-29T11:01:53Z")

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Hi all

I was wondering if anyone could recommend good books or other resources  
on designing AJAX applications ? I am looking primarily for the  
principles behind designing and modelling the AJAX interactions rather  
than specifically how to perform a particular technical function.

Naturally, if these resources use RoR or even another MVC framework for  
illustration, then that will be just dandy 😉 - but it’s not a  
requirement. I have found that there are plenty of good resources from a  
technical Rails POV that give detailed guidance on how to implement  
AJAX-type behaviour, but few give a comprehensive overall view of the  
design principles.

Thanks for any help

Rory

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**Author:** ![Rory\_McKinley](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/6bbea6/32.png) [@Rory\_McKinley](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Rory_McKinley)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2008, 11:58am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/books-on-ajax-design/136144/2 "2008-04-29T11:58:10Z")

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There’s many books about ajax, maybe you should try googling or visit  
some blog sites here like {^M\_E^}

Reinhart  
[http://teapoci.blogspot.com](http://teapoci.blogspot.com)  
“Object Oriented Antioxide”

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**Post date:** [April 29, 2008, 4:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/books-on-ajax-design/136144/3 "2008-04-29T16:12:13Z")

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Ajax Design Patterns (O’Rielly): [Ajax Design Patterns [Book]](http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/ajaxdp/)  
Ajax on Rails (O’Rielly): [Ajax on Rails [Book]](http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596527440/)

I have the latter and it has several good insights that are  
independent of Rails.

On Apr 29, 5:58 am, Visit Indonesia 2008 \<rails-mailing-l…@andreas-

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**Post date:** [April 29, 2008, 4:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/books-on-ajax-design/136144/4 "2008-04-29T16:42:41Z")

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I enjoyed Pragmatic Ajax.

Nicholas

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**Post date:** [May 1, 2008, 7:22am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/books-on-ajax-design/136144/5 "2008-05-01T07:22:42Z")

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ncancelliere wrote:

> I enjoyed Pragmatic Ajax.
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> Nicholas

Thanks for the help Reinhart, Andy and Nicholas. Will give all of those  
a try.

Rory