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Contents

1 Introduction

1.1 What Makes a Good Recipe Book? . . . . . . . . . . . . .

1.2 Who’s It For? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

1.3 Rails Version . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

1.4 Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

1.5 Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

1.6 Tags and Thumbtabs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Part I—User Interface Recipes

In-Place Form Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Making Your Own JavaScript Helper . . . . . . . . . . .

Live Preview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Live Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Creating a Drag-and-Drop Sortable List . . . . . . . . .

Update Multiple Page Elements With One Ajax Request

Lightning-Fast JavaScript Auto-completion . . . . . . .

Cheap and Easy Theme Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Use Ajax To Trim Fat, Static Pages . . . . . . . . . . . .

10. Smart Pluralization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

11. Debugging Ajax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

12. Creating a Custom Form Builder . . . . . . . . . . . . .

13. Make Pretty Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Part II—Database Recipes

14. Rails Without A Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

15. Connecting to Multiple Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . .

16. Integrating with Legacy Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . .

17. DRY Up Your Database Conﬁguration . . . . . . . . . . .

18. Self-referential Many-to-Many Relationships . . . . . . .

19. Tagging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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