"Sam" <sam@nospamme.com> wrote in message
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> Dominic Willems wrote:
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> Pretty much all Ajax code is scripted. Ruby I believe uses Java for the
> back end. There are other Ajax products that use PHP or any other language
> that can generate XML. The only all-in-one product that I found that isn't
> scripted is Morfik which uses compiled Pascal (or Basic or Java?).

AJAX is nothing more than a call to a web server function that does not
refresh the page - and Javascript code on the client uses the results to
update the page via DOM manipulation. I have AJAX progress updates for one
of my web applications that was written in Delphi's WebBroker. Nothing
really magical about it and there should be no reason a Ruby on Rails
application can not handle the AJAX backend itself.