Chapter 1 Introduction

1. Who This Book Is For

2. What Ajax Is

3. What Rails Is

4. ‘You Got Your Ajax in My Rails!’

5. Getting Up to Speed

6. Summary

Chapter 2 Getting Our Feet Wet

1. The Old-Fashioned Way

2. JavaScript Libraries and Prototype

3. Bringing Rails into the Picture

4. Summary

Chapter 3 Introducing Prototype

1. Setting the Stage

2. Ajax Links

3. Forms

4. Ajax Forms

5. Buttons

6. Form Observers

7. Summary

Chapter 4 Introducing script.aculo.us

1. Visual Effects

2. Drag and Drop

3. Summary

Chapter 5 RJS

1. Instructions Instead of Data

2. Putting the R in RJS

3. A Real-World Example

4. Summary

Chapter 6 Ajax Usability

1. Principles of Usability

2. The Context of the Web

3. Usability on the Web

4. Cross-Platform Development

5. Summary

Chapter 7 Testing and Debugging

1. Debugging

2. Testing

3. Summary

Chapter 8 Security

1. Healthy Skepticism: Don’t Trust User Input

2. Hashing Passwords

3. Silencing Logs

4. The Same-Origin Policy

5. The Use and Abuse of HTTP Methods

6. Encryption and Secure Certificates

7. The Rails Security Mailing List

8. Summary

Chapter 9 Performance

1. Development and Production Environments

2. Session Stores

3. Output Caching

4. Asset Packaging

5. Dealing with Long-Running Tasks

6. Summary

Chapter 10 Prototype Reference

1. Ajax Support

2. DOM Manipulation

3. Core Extensions

Chapter 11 script.aculo.us Reference

1. Visual Effects

2. Drag and Drop

3. Controls

4. Element Extensions

5. DOM Builder

6. JavaScript Unit Testing

7. Utility Methods

Chapter 12 Review Quiz

Chapter 13 Photo Gallery

Chapter 14 Intranet Workgroup Collaboration