AppAcademy, Week 7, Day 1

Ah, ajax & jQuery.  Worked on a clone of gist, implementing a ridiculously light Rails back end to supply data for an interactive-ish javascript front end.  Ryan Bates implements Ajax utilizing more of the Rails infrastructure, while we are posting to json, and implementing all of the javascript in-page.  It’s a little bit like going from simple-form to form_tag (except starker).  We get a better understanding of what’s going on underneath the hood, and long term learning, but man, the other way’s so much easier! :-).

Compared to shorter projects, we’ve been provided with more instruction, so the breakdown is much more manageable.