The effect reload problem in Prototype and Scriptaculous
March 9th, 2008
This problem actually relates to any site that uses queued effects, I just ran into it on Ruby on Rails. The problem is that if you queue up too many scriptaculous effects on a dom object, you will end up having nothing displayed, or flickering or highlights that never fade etc…
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February 25th, 2008
While working on a recent Ruby on Rails project, I needed to be able to check the changes in the forms that were appearing on the page and highlight those fields on change. I looked around and couldn’t really find anything I liked, so I made one.
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Latest comments
- Tomek
CTR-W is my best friend :) So called bash shotcuts – highly recommended stuff
- Ali Rizvi
Did you mean Person.new instead of MyStruct.new in your second code excerpt?
Keep up the good work! Ali
- Mikel
@Clemens
I actually use Geoffrey’s approach in all my spec’s in addition to this little builder.
The idea of the...
- Clemens Kofler
Geoffrey Grosenbach uses another method in his screencasts sometimes.
In your user_spec.rb, you’d have the following code:module UserSpecHelper...
- Xavier Shay
Even quicker way to assign User.find to a variable: user = _
the value of the last line executed is...
- Mikel
Duncan, good point, I changed the code above. Thanks for that.