Ruby on Rails 0.11 is out and once again the RoR team brings us a ground breaking productivity improvement, this time with a set of Ajax helpers.
This isn't the first time I've talked about Ajax on this Blog. But the latest Rails release takes us from theory to a complete solution that all developers can use to create Ajax interfaces in their applications.
As pointed out on the Leetsoft blog this truly is revolutionary. The ability to build Ajax interfaces as easily as standard html ones shifts the basic question from: 'Can we afford this?' to 'Will this enhance our application?'.
I have done a lot of custom Javascript/DHTML/DOM work and it's very tedious stuff. On top of being boring and error prone you end up reinventing the wheel every time you create a new form.
Now wouldn't it be great if this was available in my favourite web publishing system?
