Xavier, I for one never use jRails -- in fact, neither do most of the
rails devs i know. We do, however, use jQuery.

The JavaScript helpers in Rails 2.3 were rather ugly, from a jQuery point
of view, which probably explains why not that many people felt like using
jRails.


Daniel

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Xavier Noria <f...@hashref.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Andy Jeffries <a...@andyjeffries.co.uk> 
> wrote:
>
>> I completely disagree, just because people don't use jrails, doesn't
>> mean they're a prototype user.  I generally bring in jQuery manually
>> and delete all the prototype cruft from my projects, but I then write
>> my own jQuery code to do specifically what I want, ignoring Rails
>> helpers.
>
> I know!
>
> The problem is to gauge which percent does that represent. Do you
> claim that there's a 50% of people using jQuery exclusively without
> jRails to be able to sum up say 70%?
>
> My hypothesis is that that percent is small, and this is of course
> speculation. But speculation based on the fact that generally speaking
> one prefers to keep the helpers if the cost is as cheap as installing
> jRails.
>
> I am not claiming 16% is the exact figure, this is a sample, there's
> that other variable. What I say is that the numbers do not seem to
> **support**, to bring some evidence in favor of (1), on the contrary.
>
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