#267 CoffeeScript Basics
May 23, 2011 | 11 minutes | Rails 3.1
CoffeeScript allows you to write JavaScript in a concise, elegant fashion. Here I convert JavaScript code to CoffeeScript in a Rails 3.1 app.
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