JavaScript Podcasts
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Railscasts: #136 jQuery
How do you use jQuery with Rails? In this episode I redo episode #43 using jQuery instead of Prototype/RJS.
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Railscasts: #197 Nested Model Form Part 2
Add and remove nested model fields dynamically through JavaScript using either Prototype or jQuery.
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Railscasts: #205 Unobtrusive Javascript
Keep JavaScript out of your HTML content with unobtrusive JavaScript. Here I show how Rails 3 works with this best practice.
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Railscasts: #267 CoffeeScript Basics
CoffeeScript allows you to write JavaScript in a concise, elegant fashion. Here I convert JavaScript code to CoffeeScript in a Rails 3.1 app.
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Railscasts: #261 Testing JavaScript with Jasmine
Are you testing your JavaScript? Learn how to add specs using Jasmine. This episode also covers jQuery integration with jasmine-jquery.
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Railscasts: #174 Pagination with AJAX
Learn an easy, unobtrusive way to add AJAX functionality to an existing set of pagination links using jQuery.
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Railscasts: #175 AJAX History and Bookmarks
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.
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Railscasts: #258 Token Fields
With the jQuery Tokeninput plugin it is easy to add an autocompleting list of entries for a many-to-many association.
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Railscasts: #169 Dynamic Page Caching
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.
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Railscasts: #229 Polling for Changes
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.
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Railscasts: #257 Request Specs and Capybara
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.
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Railscasts: #246 AJAX History State
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.
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Railscasts: #77 Destroy Without JavaScript
If the user has JavaScript disabled, the "Destroy" link might not work properly. In this episode I will explore a number of ways to work around this issue.
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The ASP.NET Podcast: AJAX with jQuery
Wally does a short example using jQuery to make AJAX calls.
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The ASP.NET Podcast: Silverlight and Managed JavaScript
Wally shows an example written in Silverlight and managed JavaScript.
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The ASP.NET Podcast: JavaScript Intellisense and Debugging in Visual Studio .NET Orcas Beta1
Wally shows JavaScript Intellisense and Debugging in Visual Studio .NET Orcas Beta1.
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OnSoftware from InformIT: Learn to use the Javascript Client Object Model
Scott Hillier shows SharePoint developers how to use the JavaScript Client Object Model.
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Railscasts: #390 Turbolinks
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.
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Railscasts: #360 Facebook Authentication
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.
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Railscasts: #340 DataTables
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.
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FLOSS Weekly
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