Unobtrusive Javascript in Rails

In this class, we'll start making our views come to life by adding javascript to make them more dynamic.

We'll continue with the activity tracker application we started last week, but instead of going to new pages when we submit forms, we're going to make it into a single-page application that feels more fluid and natural.

Pre-Requisites:

• ruby 2.1.1 (can probably get away with 1.9.3)
• rails 4.1

• fork https://github.com/rails-school/simple_tracker and clone your fork (can get away with just cloning https://github.com/rails-school/simple_tracker but then you won't be able to push back your changes)

  bash% git clone [email protected]:<your_username>/simple_tracker.git
  

  
  

• switch to the branch we ended up with last time (activities_with_category)

  bash% git checkout -b activities_with_category
  bash% git pull origin activities_with_category
  

  
  

• install dependencies

  bash% bundle install
  

  
  

• launch a rails server

  bash% rails s
  

  
  

• make sure the site is running at http://localhost:3000