Woo Hoo!

I’m officially a Ruby on Rails contributor! Very cool.

Well, I thought I’d post an update. My changes were approved and merged into Rails’ SVN. So, if you are using the latest-greatest code, then you can add a :position symbol to form_remote_tag or link_to_remote with one of the following string values: before, top, bottom, after, replace (default).

For my next idea… I was thinking of making the AJAX.Updater a little smarter by having it check the type of element it’s updating. It should be able to set the value of a form field, if it’s the update target.

But that leads to some interesting questions. How do we handle different types of input elements? text and textarea are easy — just set the value. What about checkboxes, radiobuttons, and listboxes? It seems like you would be changing the selectable values for radiobuttons and selectboxes… And I have no idea what would change on a checkbox. You could change the value, but why? You could have it selected or not, but why would you need AJAX for this?