jQuery's popularity in the Ruby on Rails community has been growing in recent months. jQuery, with its unobtrusive nature, has got developers thinking in ways that they haven't done before. jQuery is doing for the implementation of JavaScript what CSS did for the old school table layouts. Ruby on Rails, with its convention over configuration and full stack, makes it extremely simple (and secure) to get a professional web application up and running. Practical Rails with jQuery Projects by Andrew Chalkley aims to bring these two technologies together, the unobtrusive jQuery and the DRY RESTful Rails, in order to make better, faster, lighter Rails applications with jQuery.
