What better time than a 4-hour flight to Vegas to play with the new Ajax helpers in everyone's favorite web application framework?
Yeah, ok, I'm sure there are tons of better times.
The good news is, it really is as simple as promised. I really thought, even as clean as Rails has been, that this would have been a lot uglier. Happy to be proven wrong, it fits in beautifully with the framework, and is an absolute breeze to use.
This stuff can't keep getting better, can it?
As others have noted, there is a lack of how-to documentation for this stuff. I managed to put it together in about ten minutes with a downloaded copy of the Rails 0.11 rubydocs at my side (is that what those are called? The stuff that looks like javadoc on crack?). Then again, I'm really just whining at this point, the feature was released yesterday for crying out loud, I'm sure the tutorials will come.
On that note, I'm dying for the announced Rails books from Dave Thomas et all (sorry, only links from memory on net-less airplanes). I manage to read through the reference docs when I have something to figure out, but there's still way too much of this stuff that I view as magic at this point. If it's working for now, I don't bother digging into the how or why, only really diving deep when I hit a brick wall.
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