O'Reilly - Ajax on Rails
Ajax on Rails
Table of Contents
Copyright
Preface
Chapter 1. Introduction
Section 1.1. Who This Book Is For
Section 1.2. What Ajax Is
Section 1.3. What Rails Is
Section 1.4. 'You Got Your Ajax in My Rails!'
Section 1.5. Getting Up to Speed
Section 1.6. Summary
Chapter 2. Getting Our Feet Wet
Section 2.1. The Old-Fashioned Way
Section 2.2. JavaScript Libraries and Prototype
Section 2.3. Bringing Rails into the Picture
Section 2.4. Summary
Chapter 3. Introducing Prototype
Section 3.1. Setting the Stage
Section 3.2. Ajax Links
Section 3.3. Forms
Section 3.4. Ajax Forms
Section 3.5. Buttons
Section 3.6. Form Observers
Section 3.7. Summary
Chapter 4. Introducing script.aculo.us
Section 4.1. Visual Effects
Section 4.2. Drag and Drop
Section 4.3. Summary
Chapter 5. RJS
Section 5.1. Instructions Instead of Data
Section 5.2. Putting the R in RJS
Section 5.3. A Real-World Example
Section 5.4. Summary
Chapter 6. Ajax Usability
Section 6.1. Principles of Usability
Section 6.2. The Context of the Web
Section 6.3. Usability on the Web
Section 6.4. Cross-Platform Development
Section 6.5. Summary
Chapter 7. Testing and Debugging
Section 7.1. Debugging
Section 7.2. Testing
Section 7.3. Summary
Chapter 8. Security
Section 8.1. Healthy Skepticism: Don't Trust User Input
Section 8.2. Hashing Passwords
Section 8.3. Silencing Logs
Section 8.4. The Same-Origin Policy
Section 8.5. The Use and Abuse of HTTP Methods
Section 8.6. Encryption and Secure Certificates
Section 8.7. The Rails Security Mailing List
Section 8.8. Summary
Chapter 9. Performance
Section 9.1. Development and Production Environments
Section 9.2. Session Stores
Section 9.3. Output Caching
Section 9.4. Asset Packaging
Section 9.5. Dealing with Long-Running Tasks
Section 9.6. Summary
Chapter 10. Prototype Reference
Section 10.1. Ajax Support
Section 10.2. DOM Manipulation
Section 10.3. Core Extensions
Chapter 11. script.aculo.us Reference
Section 11.1. Visual Effects
Section 11.2. Drag and Drop
Section 11.3. Controls
Section 11.4. Element Extensions
Section 11.5. DOM Builder
Section 11.6. JavaScript Unit Testing
Section 11.7. Utility Methods
Chapter 12. Review Quiz
Chapter 13. Photo Gallery
Chapter 14. Intranet Workgroup Collaboration
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