# Full Ajax Application **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [February 6, 2009, 8:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/full-ajax-application/159665 "2009-02-06T20:17:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Geekyra](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/a5b964/32.png) [@Geekyra](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Geekyra)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 8:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/full-ajax-application/159665/1 "2009-02-06T20:17:41Z")
Hello, I’m a newbie here… please… can anyone help me about FULL AJAX ? for example if i’m scaffolding a simple model and controller for product which only have 1 field for NAME:STRING with the command : script/generate scaffold Product name:string and for the generated code I like to turn it into a full ajax app, for example if i’m click the NEW or EDIT link it will remotely call server and change the partial of my new empty div without refreshing the full page, and I think the view is only index.html.erb, so I like to make ajax magic only in one index view. I already search a book about how to make In Place Editing, but the problem all the solution is just for In Place Editing for an old record not In Place Editing for a new record. So please help me someone, cause i’m already stuck for about 2 weeks just how to figure this out in a clean and REST way…thanx ---
**Author:** ![Geekyra](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/a5b964/32.png) [@Geekyra](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Geekyra)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2009, 2:54am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/full-ajax-application/159665/2 "2009-02-09T02:54:36Z")
Geekyra wrote: > Hello, I’m a newbie here… please… can anyone help me about FULL > AJAX ? for example if i’m scaffolding a simple model and controller > for product which only have 1 field for NAME:STRING with the command : If I’m understanding you correctly then I would recommend you give up on this idea. Rails is a web application development framework, which does allow easily mix in of some AJAX. But, it is not designed to be a Rich Internet Application (RIA) framework. Rails would be an excellent choice, however, to act as the back-end for a full-on AJAX RIA application that has been built using a framework designed for building them. Here are a few frameworks I’m familiar with that provides this style of application: > **[SproutCore](https://sproutcore.com/)** > > A framework for building fast, desktop caliber web applications. [http://cappuccino.org/](http://cappuccino.org/) [http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/?promoid=BPDEQ](http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/?promoid=BPDEQ) If I have misunderstood your question then feel free to disregard this answer. ---
**Author:** ![Geekyra](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/a5b964/32.png) [@Geekyra](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Geekyra)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2009, 10:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/full-ajax-application/159665/3 "2009-02-09T10:26:58Z")
AHH Robert u shoot me straight into my heart cos I’m already falling in love with RAILS :), but very - very thanks anyway cos u restrain me from finding and bugging another mailing list just to cover my ajax exhaustion. Ahh start to learning another framework anw and one more time thanks for the RIA sites suggestion On Feb 9, 8:54 am, Robert W. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) ---
**Author:** ![Geekyra](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/a5b964/32.png) [@Geekyra](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Geekyra)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2009, 6:10am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/full-ajax-application/159665/4 "2009-02-10T06:10:53Z")
Geekyra wrote: > AHH Robert u shoot me straight into my heart cos I’m already falling > in love with RAILS :), but very - very thanks anyway cos u restrain me > from finding and bugging another mailing list just to cover my ajax > exhaustion. Ahh start to learning another framework anw and one more > time thanks for the RIA sites suggestion > > On Feb 9, 8:54�am, Robert W. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) I love Rails as well, and my post was not at all an attack on Rails. It just a matter of “the right tool for the right job.” Rails is built to design a certain type of application and is best used for that task. It just sounded to me like you were looking for a full-on RIA application, and there are some really great frameworks out there for building those. Most of them, however, don’t really stand on their own. They need a back-end. They need something running on the server-side to take care of managing the application’s data. Rails would make an excellent choice to act as that server-side piece. Besides that it’s not likely that your entire web site will be built as an RIA. That may be just one small part of the larger site. Rails would also be an excellent choice for handling that which is outside the scope of the RIA. ---
**Author:** ![Geekyra](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/a5b964/32.png) [@Geekyra](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Geekyra)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2009, 7:39am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/full-ajax-application/159665/5 "2009-02-10T07:39:52Z")
I’m not looking for full RIA as well, cos ur right Rails is the best tool for back end and I really love the agile way. I’m just wan’t to make the client side run faster by partial refresh everything, why do we need to refresh whole page if what we wan’t to do is just refresh one single line of data ? My point is I just want to make Net app run faster for country who doesn’t have a good net connection (for example dial up 64kbps) who will suffer for waiting the whole page refreshing when they only want to update 1 line data. Actually i have done a full ajax app in rails but i think i violent the rest way, for 7 rest route that rails provide I’m only using create and update using form\_remote\_for and destroy using link\_to\_remote. For new, edit, and show i’m using link\_to\_function (not link\_to\_remote) so the client doesn’t bother server at all, so actually I doesn’t have new, edit, and show method in controller, aren’t that breaking the REST way ? And now i have some project that is a crazier ajax way 🙂 I just have one page (called it dashboard) that have 2 region left and right. On the left I want to put it all the navigation and link to the data and the right region is the view of data itself. So the point is everytime i i choose the navigation on the left dashboard it will replace the right dashboard with the data so I the view doesn’t refesh full page but only partial right region so It will run as fast as possible. After several trying i realized the javascript code is really complicated, so I just wan’t to know are there any easier way to do my problem ? On Feb 10, 12:10 pm, Robert W. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)