[Rails] Re: Question regarding entering data in a has_many relations

Robert Walker wrote:
> Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote:
>> Robert Walker wrote:
>> [...]
>>> The view is where these things get a little more tricky. There is no
>>> "one right way" to do this. It's going to depend on your specific case.
>>> Often it's a good idea to allow the user to add steps by using AJAX to
>>> insert new form fields to hold all the steps the user may want to enter.
>>
>> Not Ajax, just straight client-side JavaScript. There is no need to
>> involve the server.
>
> That was boneheaded of me! All that's needed is client-side DOM
> manipulation with no server involvement. The AJAX acronym should just go
> way. It's used to generally and really has no clear meaning anyway. And
> here I am perpetuation the problem. :-)

Ajax (specifically not an acronym according to its creator, although it
really is one) has a very clear meaning -- asynchronous JavaScript
server requests that don't require a page reload. The term is useful
and I see no reason to drop it -- if it's used in its proper sense.
This wasn't it. :)

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