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Active Model Serializers
The ActiveModel::Serializers gem can help you build JSON APIs through serializer objects. This provides a dedicated place to fully customize the JSON output.
(10 minutes)
Private Pub
Private Pub makes it easier than ever to publish and subscribe to real-time events in a Rails app. You can use publish_to with a block of JavaScript or supply a hash for use with JSON.
(7 minutes)
RABL
RABL - Ruby API Builder Language - provides a DSL for generating JSON or XML responses in a Ruby application. Learn how to share and configure complex JSON data in this episode.
(8 minutes)
Jbuilder
Jbuilder provides a DSL for generating JSON. It includes a template engine which allows you to create complex responses with helpers and conditions.
(8 minutes)
The Rails API Gem
It is often asked: Is Rails a good fit if I only need to serve an API? In this episode I show how to use the Rails API gem to create a slimmer Rails application designed to respond with JSON.
(9 minutes)
DataTables
DataTables makes it easy to convert a plain HTML table into one with pagination, sorting, and searching - all done with JavaScript and jQuery. Here I show how to set this up and use a Rails application as the data source.
(9 minutes)
Passing Data to JavaScript
There are a variety of ways to pass variables from a Rails application to JavaScript. Here I show three techniques: a script tag, a data attribute, and the Gon gem.
(6 minutes)
Token Fields
With the jQuery Tokeninput plugin it is easy to add an autocompleting list of entries for a many-to-many association.
(11 minutes)
Messaging with Faye
Faye is a subscription/publishing server which makes it easy to do push notifications within a Rails app.
(13 minutes)
Offline Apps Part 2
Learn how to make a site usable offline with HTML 5 localStorage. This last part of the series covers jquery-tmpl and jquery-offline.
(14 minutes)