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JavaScript Eye for the Ruby Guy
A while ago a number of articles were written under the common name Ruby Eye for the Java Guy, which explained Ruby from a Java programmer’s point of view. I’ve been meaning to do the same for JavaScript for a while, explaining JavaScript from a Ruby programmer’s point of view, but I kept, ehm, not doing it. I finally got around to writing it this weekend though, and I’ve put it up here:
JavaScript Eye for the Ruby Guy
As good as every Ruby programmer who uses Rails also uses JavaScript, but not many actually know how it works. I used to only care enough to make it work and dismissed JavaScript as unimportant, but I’ve since learnt how wrong I was. Many like me are starting to see it for what it really is – a little quirky but at the same time a fascinating and powerful language. There is currently a big drive towards using more unobtrusive JavaScript and Ajax techniques in web pages, and knowing how to actually program in JavaScript is definitely an advantage :)
The article is by no means comprehensive, but it should explain the most basic (and most interesting) stuff.
