Rubynoob

I've recently written about how to get Ajax stuff to work in your Ruby on Rails applications. However, being the noob that I am, after so many years of writing plumbing code I've not ever really grokked Ajax, much less javascript. Sure, I know what each are, but I haven't used either enough to really understand them.

So, I've set out to learn what I can. Tuesday night I purchased Head Rush Ajax. This is one of the new style books from O'Reilly with tons of pictures and nice, slow introductions into how stuff works. I'm not sure that I need my hand held quite so much, but I'm 55 pages into it and I've already learned some, so it's a good thing.