Xavier, I for one never use jRails -- in fact, neither do most of the rails devs i know. We do, however, use jQuery.
The JavaScript helpers in Rails 2.3 were rather ugly, from a jQuery point of view, which probably explains why not that many people felt like using jRails. Daniel On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Xavier Noria <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Andy Jeffries <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I completely disagree, just because people don't use jrails, doesn't >> mean they're a prototype user. I generally bring in jQuery manually >> and delete all the prototype cruft from my projects, but I then write >> my own jQuery code to do specifically what I want, ignoring Rails >> helpers. > > I know! > > The problem is to gauge which percent does that represent. Do you > claim that there's a 50% of people using jQuery exclusively without > jRails to be able to sum up say 70%? > > My hypothesis is that that percent is small, and this is of course > speculation. But speculation based on the fact that generally speaking > one prefers to keep the helpers if the cost is as cheap as installing > jRails. > > I am not claiming 16% is the exact figure, this is a sample, there's > that other variable. What I say is that the numbers do not seem to > **support**, to bring some evidence in favor of (1), on the contrary. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core?hl=en.
