Rails and JavaScript: Part 1

Previously on Locally Sourced: Well, in 2005 I came across a cool web framework called Ruby on Rails. More recently, I wrote a book about integrating Rails and front-end tools. If you want, you could buy it. Today, I thought I’d go back to the beginning…Over the fifteen or so years that Rails has been around, the relationship between Rails and client-side JavaScript has gone in many different directions. What with Hey.com's big release, and the attendant yet-to-be-released open source library changes, now seemed a good time to look at how that relationship has evolved and eventually come back to where it started. This got long pretty quickly, so I'm splitting it into a few parts. In this part, we're going to talk about early Rails, by which I mean before the 3.0 release in 2010.