Comments on: UJS; RJS versus POJS; Prototype Stack versus JQuery Stack

By: Marnen Laibow-Koser

Marnen Laibow-Koser — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:02:21 +0000

There are certainly other options for unobtrusive JS. I’ve done a complex Ajax application with Mootools, unobtrusive-style coding, and PHP.

By: louis

louis — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 01:55:32 +0000

i am a rails developer, and i’m not a fan of rjs. in fact, i started w/ ruby, then rails, then got tired of rjs and a lot of the mixing of xhtml, css, and javascript that is the out-of-the-box rails experience. i appreciate the ‘shield rails programmers from any non-ruby/rails code’, and they’ve done a fantastic job w/ most of it. but, i just went ahead and learned js and use that exclusively. i will at minimum, use jquery for it’s document.ready() and a lot of the features that libraries excel at: cross-browser issues. and at maximum, i love the chaining. 1 line to take care of what 10 lines of pojs does is hard to argue against.

plus, jquery.min is *tiny* compared to the :defaults that rails wants you to use. and you can choose to load only the plugins you want on a per-site basis.

By: jonah

jonah — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 07:39:52 +0000

jQuery is definitely the way to go for me. RJS seems to be simply a stepping stone for programmers that are scared of javascript (i.e. they dont know it very well).

By: bryan

bryan — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 15:18:02 +0000

I am not a RoR developer so I cant give you any advice about your Ruby predicament. I do, however, love jQuery. You said one thing right – people who I respect are moving to jQuery. I am think for good reason! I am sure the Prototype will eventually emulate some of the things jQuery is doing to make life easier for us. It is just how the game works – if a product is doing better than yours, you figure out why and you make your product do the same – or do it significantly better. I dont know if Prototype can do it better. Personally, I have already made the switch to jQuery about two months ago and it has changed the way I code. Everything is prettier and makes more sense to read.