https://www.developerfusion.com/t/javascript/media/view/video/ 2012-11-05T22:41:00.00Z http://www.developerfusion.com/media/147326/390-turbolinks/ 2012-11-05T22:41:00.00Z

Turbolinks can make your Rails app feel faster by using JavaScript to replace the page content when clicking a link. It will be default in new Rails 4.0 applications, but here I show how to use it in Rails 3 and mention some of the gotchas.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/media/144313/360-facebook-authentication/ 2012-07-02T14:29:00.00Z

This will show how to create a new facebook application and configure it. Then add some authentication with the omniauth-facebook gem and top it off with a client-side authentication using the JavaScript SDK.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/media/141688/340-datatables/ 2012-04-12T04:52:00.00Z

DataTables makes it easy to convert a plain HTML table into one with pagination, sorting, and searching - all done with JavaScript and jQuery. Here I show how to set this up and use a Rails application as the data source.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/media/139107/328-twitter-bootstrap-basics/ 2012-02-29T08:02:00.00Z

Twitter Bootstrap can help make beautiful web apps quickly by providing you with useful CSS and JavaScript. Here you will learn how to include it into Rails with the twitter-bootstrap-rails gem.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/media/138156/324-passing-data-to-javascript/ 2012-02-14T08:53:00.00Z

There are a variety of ways to pass variables from a Rails application to JavaScript. Here I show three techniques: a script tag, a data attribute, and the Gon gem.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/media/136587/316-private-pub/ 2012-01-17T06:24:00.00Z

Private Pub makes it easier than ever to publish and subscribe to real-time events in a Rails app. You can use publish_to with a block of JavaScript or supply a hash for use with JSON.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/media/119851/267-coffeescript-basics/ 2011-05-23T09:55:00.00Z

CoffeeScript allows you to write JavaScript in a concise, elegant fashion. Here I convert JavaScript code to CoffeeScript in a Rails 3.1 app.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/media/118907/261-testing-javascript-with-jasmine/ 2011-05-10T03:36:00.00Z

Are you testing your JavaScript? Learn how to add specs using Jasmine. This episode also covers jQuery integration with jasmine-jquery.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/media/118910/258-token-fields/ 2011-05-10T03:36:00.00Z

With the jQuery Tokeninput plugin it is easy to add an autocompleting list of entries for a many-to-many association.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/media/118911/257-request-specs-and-capybara/ 2011-05-10T03:36:00.00Z

Request specs in RSpec are a great way to ensure the entire application stack is working properly. Here I also show how to use capybara with integrated JavaScript testing using Selenium.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/media/118922/246-ajax-history-state/ 2011-05-10T03:36:00.00Z

The new pushState function in JavaScript allows us to change the full URL with AJAX. This means the back button, reloading, and bookmark support can be easily added.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/media/113958/chris-pels-on-jquery/ 2011-03-04T12:40:00.00Z

While at the Boston Code Camp 2010, Carl talked to Chris Pels about jQuery. Chris talks about how jQuery works, and how to use it in any web app.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/media/118939/229-polling-for-changes/ 2011-05-10T03:36:00.00Z

If you have frequently changing data on the server side, it's helpful to automatically display this to the user as well. Here I show how to accomplish this with polling in jQuery.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/media/84033/learn-to-use-the-javascript-client-object-model/ 2010-06-10T16:10:00.00Z

Scott Hillier shows SharePoint developers how to use the JavaScript Client Object Model.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/media/84028/learn-to-use-the-javascript-client-object-model/ 2010-06-10T16:10:00.00Z

Scott Hillier shows SharePoint developers how to use the JavaScript Client Object Model.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/media/118963/205-unobtrusive-javascript/ 2011-05-10T03:36:00.00Z

Keep JavaScript out of your HTML content with unobtrusive JavaScript. Here I show how Rails 3 works with this best practice.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/media/118971/197-nested-model-form-part-2/ 2011-05-10T03:36:00.00Z

Add and remove nested model fields dynamically through JavaScript using either Prototype or jQuery.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/media/118993/175-ajax-history-and-bookmarks/ 2011-05-10T03:36:00.00Z

Browser page history and bookmarks do not usually work with AJAX requests, but in this episode I show you how to remedy this problem using a simple jQuery plugin.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/media/118994/174-pagination-with-ajax/ 2011-05-10T03:36:00.00Z

Learn an easy, unobtrusive way to add AJAX functionality to an existing set of pagination links using jQuery.

James Crowley http://www.developerfusion.com/media/118999/169-dynamic-page-caching/ 2011-05-10T03:36:00.00Z

Use JavaScript to allow dynamic content in a page cache. In this episode I show you how to insert the user-specific content into a page through JavaScript.

James Crowley