Photo by Steve Ganz

DHH has mentioned during one of his talks that the javascripts folder of any project has an unfortunate tendency to become a “junk drawer” of sorts. The plethora of javascript frameworks and plugins combined with a lack of built-in module support makes this kind of inevitable.

Over the last couple of months I started feeling this way about the current project we are actively developing, Salesguide. While Rails’ MVC design has kept us reasonably disciplined in our server-side code, there is a distinct lack of conventions for javascript.

I will be giving a presentation at the Omaha jQuery Meetup for their Sept. 1st meeting.

I’ll be giving a brief introduction to RESTful web services using Sinatra, followed by a demonstration of how my plugin jquery.rest makes things easier.

Whether you’ve never touched a RESTful web service before, or you’re an old pro who wants a better way, this meetup is for you! Hope to see you there.

We’ve been writing a lot of AJAX code with jQuery talking to our Rails backend, and lately we’ve been noticing a lot of duplication happening. There are several things that you need to do for Rails all the time that add up to a lot of tedium. Here’s a small jQuery plugin we developed to make this easier and DRY up our code.

jQuery.rest project at Github