Scriptaculous SortableTree
posted: May 30th, 2008 · by: Sven
For a project I’ve been working on recently I needed a sortable javascript tree widget that allows to drag and drop tree nodes and serialize an ajax call on drop events.
I’ve googled for solutions but did not find anything that implemented the simple things I wanted in a lightweight manner. So I started to check out the Scriptaculous sortable tree option but no matter what I tried I could not get it behave.
A couple of frustrating hours of reading the code and comments on the somewhat sparse Scriptaculous documentation (no offense!) I gave up and decided to implement this myself.
Here’s the result.
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posted: May 1st, 2008 · by: Sven
… because it already has Engines for Rails 2.0.
You can file this in the category of “Doh!” and “Things: obvious, but missed” … at least that applies to me. Did you notice it?
I’ve just recognized that with todays Engines and Rails 2.0’s config.plugin_paths you can do exactly what John W. Long envisioned and called for one and a half year ago.
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