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James Golick

James Golick's software experience ranges from artificial intelligence to web front-end and JavaScript development. Most recently, James has fallen back in love with web development thanks to Ruby on Rails.

Since discovering Rails, James has become a prolific contributor to its open source ecosystem. He is the author of several popular plug-ins and gems, and a contributor to countless others, including the framework itself.

James is an advocate for well-written, well-tested code and he blogs regularly about the practice of developing software. He speaks regularly at software development conferences and user groups. James is a partner in Nine Lives, Inc.

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attribute_fu and jQuery shake hands

Apr 03 2008

This blog has been quiet of late, because I'm working on a couple of exciting, but still top-secret projects. Anyway, I recently moved one of those projects over to jQuery, because of its speed, syntax, and general awesomeness. Tonight, when I went to create a multi-model form with attribute_fu, I was stopped dead in my tracks by its heavy dependency on prototype. A few minutes of hacking later, a_f and jQuery are playing rather nicely together.

Get it from the jquery branch of a_f's git repo. If you aren't using git yet, this might be just the excuse you need to check it out! Or, download a tarball from github. After you install the plugin, you'll have to copy its one javascript dependency (jQuery templates) from the javascripts directory over in to your public/javascripts and require it in your layout.