Archive for July, 2010

Meet DHTMLX Version 2.6!

Thursday, July 22nd, 2010

We are proud to present a new DHTMLX release and have good reason for it – the new DHTMLX has been outfitted with all the components it needs to be a complete toolkit for building rich, Ajax-based web applications. With the new version 2.6 of our JavaScript UI library, you can develop any kind of web interface, in terms of both functionality and design. And if you think that’s all, the answer is no!

Let’s jump below for a glimpse at the Top 10 notable improvements:

1. New Components

The library was enriched with three new JavaScript components: dhtmlxForm, dhtmlxChart, and dhtmlxDataView (which replaces dhtmlxFolders, but with much wider possibilities). Each of them will facilitate your work and save you time and effort.

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Editable Datagrid for Ruby on Rails Built with dhtmlxGrid

Monday, July 5th, 2010

NOTE: This tutorial is for RoR 2. If you’re using RoR 3, please see additional details here.

This tutorial will show you how to display tabular data in Ruby on Rails with dhtmlxGrid Standard Edition, which is available under GNU GPL. At the end, we will have a datagrid with in-line editing, sorting, and filtering, which loads its data from the server and saves it back to the database using Ruby on Rails.

To illustrate, we will create a table of users. This is a very common task for nearly any web application. Working with RoR, we could use scaffolds, but they don’t work so well for navigation on large sets of data. Besides, dhtmlxGrid has client-side editing and filtering functionality, which can greatly simplify things. This is how our final grid will look:

dhtmlxGrid and RoR Example: Editable Ajax Grid

dhtmlxGrid and RoR Example: Editable Ajax Grid


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