Kolodvor

If you are using jQuery see this post.

To set focus on first text field with Prototype I prefer something like this

  var firstField = $$('input:text:visible').first();
  if (firstField)
    firstField.focus();

but you can also try with Form.focusFirstElement or Form.findFirstElement

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Rails protects controller actions from CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery) attacks with a token based on a random string stored in the session. The token parameter is named authenticity_token by default and will be embedded in all forms and Ajax requests generated by Rails.

You should also add this token to all Ajax request that you hand coded. As suggested in Rails documentation you can add this line in head section.

  <%= javascript_tag "window._token = '#{form_authenticity_token}'" %>

and then add authenticity_token to parameters option of Ajax requests

  new Ajax.Request('/some/url', {
    parameters: "foo=bar&authenticity_token="+_token
  });

Remote forgery protection plugin

This can get tedious if you have a lot of Ajax requests so I wrote a simple plugin that adds authenticity token to all Ajax requests automatically.

You can install it with

  script/plugin install git://github.com/vlado/remote_forgery_protection.git

Now all you have to do is add this line inside head section of you’re layout

  <%= remote_forgery_protection %>

and all non GET Ajax request will have authenticity_token parameter automatically included.

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I’ve spend a lot of time with Prototype last few days, and this is going to be my first post related to prototype. So let’s see how to stripe the table using prototype, I think you will be surprised how easy it is.

HTML for our table will look like

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