# Success stories on JRails

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/success-stories-on-jrails/156808>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [January 3, 2009, 9:03am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/success-stories-on-jrails/156808 "2009-01-03T09:03:44Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 3, 2009, 9:03am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/success-stories-on-jrails/156808/1 "2009-01-03T09:03:44Z")

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Hi All,

I am new to wonderful Rails, I am starting a project in Rails.  
Searching for the best UI widgets and plugins that I can used in  
Rails. Found 2 best 1) ExtJS and 2) JQuery. As I saw ExtJS, it is very  
large in size and I dont want to load the extjs-all.js for each client  
request. Next option is JQuery, which is also good come with very  
compressed version with minimal functionality. If you need more and  
more widgets we need to import corresponding plugins.

I just want to know the people comments on this and I want to hear  
the success stories using JRails.

Thanks,  
Ramu.

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**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2009, 6:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/success-stories-on-jrails/156808/2 "2009-01-05T18:52:47Z")

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> Found 2 best 1) ExtJS and 2) JQuery. As I saw ExtJS, it is very  
> large in size and I dont want to load the extjs-all.js for each client  
> request.

What is the nature of your project? Is it a backend web-application  
or a public website?

If your project is more application-like, there are a number of things  
you can do to squeeze down the size of Ext, including mod\_gzip with  
apache.

I have over two years’ experience using Ext with Rails.

Chris S.  
Senior Software Engineer – ExtJS  
My blog: [www.extonrails.com](http://www.extonrails.com)  
Stephen Hiller’s Rails/Ext blog: [http://www.extjswithrails.com/](http://www.extjswithrails.com/)