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Using jQuery

jQuery has become the most popular JavaScript library both inside and outside the Rails community. Let's look at how to take advantage of the library with our applications.

Setup

The setup process differs depending on whether your app is running on a version of Rails before 3.1 or greater than 3.1.

Before Rails 3.1: jquery-rails

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Exposing an API

APIs are becoming an essential feature of modern web applications. Rails does a good job of helping your application provide an API using the same MVC structure you're accustomed to.

In the Controller

Let's work with the following example controller:

class ArticlesController < ApplicationController

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Friendly URLs

By default, Rails applications build URLs based on the primary key -- the id column from the database. Imagine we have a Person model and associated controller. We have a person record for Bob Martin that has id number 6. The URL for his show page would be:

/people/6

But, for aesthetic or SEO purposes, we want Bob's name in the URL. The last segment, the 6 here, is called the "slug". Let's look at a few ways to implement better slugs.

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#
# A basic, synthetic benchmark of the impact HTTP client has
# on the speed of talking to ElasticSearch in the Tire gem.
#
# In general, Curb seems to be more then two times faster the RestClient, in some cases it's three
# to five times faster. I wonder if keep-alive has anything to do with it, but it probably does.
#
# Run me with:
#     $ git clone git://github.com/karmi/tire.git
#     $ cd tire

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data = ["1", "11", "111", "2", "22", "222", "3", "4", "5"]
y = (1..9).inject({}) { |memo, data| memo[data.to_s] = 0; memo }
data.each { |z| y[z.chr] = y.fetch(z.chr, 0) + 1 }
puts y

y = {};(1..9).map { |x| y[x.to_s] = 0 }
data.each { |z| y[z.chr] = y.fetch(z.chr, 0) + 1 }
puts y

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curl localhost:9200/_search -d '{
    "query" : {
        "filtered" : {
            "query" : {"match_all" : {}},
            "filter" : {
                "and" : [
                    {
                        "range" : {
                            "file_size" : {"from" : 10, "to" : 10000}
                        }

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$ git clone github:lenary/guides.git
Cloning into guides...
remote: Counting objects: 255, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (216/216), done.
remote: Total 255 (delta 111), reused 163 (delta 35)
Receiving objects: 100% (255/255), 1.49 MiB | 564 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (111/111), done.

$ cd guides
$ git remote -v

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source :gemcutter

eval File.read(File.expand_path("../config/bundler/general.gemfile", __FILE__))
unless RUBY_PLATFORM[/mswin/] || RUBY_PLATFORM[/mingw/]
  eval File.read(File.expand_path("../config/bundler/unix.gemfile", __FILE__))
end

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$(document).ready(function(){
  $('.other_submit').click(function(){
    this.form.action = this.getAttribute('data-action')
  })
})