Port project Javascript from Prototype to jQuery

[kaapa]

For now this is just a placeholder. I'll write information regarding this topic in the following days and push a feature branch for completing the task.

[kaapa]

Branch for the port.

What has been done:

• Merged Slawosz's work on associated record creation, this included the basic jQuery setup
• Setup a very neutral jQuery UI theme (smoothness)
• Rewrote associated record code to a jQuery UI widget which uses a jQuery UI dialog (jQuery UI dialog was chosen over Facebox dialog due to it being the official widget and has jQuery UI theme support)
• Rewrote dashboard timeline code to a jQuery UI widget
• Rewrote list view browsing to be completely ajaxified, backed by rails remote links and a jQuery listener
• Merged datetime-localization branch which supports input of localized dates
• Date and timestamp input fields use jQuery UI datepicker

What's been done (Feb 4th update):

• Rewrote multiple selection widget to a jQuery UI widget.
• Removed prototype assets
• Merged polymorphic associations branch
• Polymorphic association form inputs type change updates the associated collection via xhr

What's been done (Feb 17th update):

• Big refactor for CSS and HTML, including a good amount of element styling via the jQuery UI CSS framework.
• Introduced html_attributes configurable for fields which made possible to refactor from a number of field type partials to just few
• Made form rendering use Rails form helper. Due to this form values for a model are now encapsulated in a key by model's singular name.
• Bugfixes for custom jQuery widgets
• All tests pass again

What's been done (Mar 11th update):

• Created a composite date-/timepicker component from two jQuery plugins
• Tests for date/time fields' input format localization
• Simple tests for polymorphic associations
• Implemented backend support for listing/filtering records for xhr/json queries
• Implemented xhr queries for large datasets for filtering multiselect widget
• Swapped "smoothness" theme for "aristo" jQuery UI theme
• CSS/markup refactor at usable state

What's been done (Mar 14th update):

• Colorpicker implemented with jQuery
• All RailsAdmin's own JS widgets now pass JSLint

What's missing:

• Testing with different browsers

Postponed after merge:

• Implement autocomplete for large datasets in has one / belongs to association widgets

[kaapa]

I'd like to invite everyone to give a test for the jQuery branch of RailsAdmin and report any issues in this thread. All help would be very much appreciated as some manual QA is required before I feel confident enough to merge the branch to master.

[sferik]

I spent this morning testing the jQuery branch and believe it is ready to be merged into master as soon as the last know bug is resolved (list views next/previous column set links).

Fantastic work Petteri!

[aroop]

Everything seems to be working great in my testing. Except for I don't see the ""Records" column being populated in Dashboard page.

Thanks for the excellent work

[kaapa]

Thank you for the compliments and the bug report!

The records bars are now populated again (see 837270dddd6c291a4e8987e32b39d53d8a5488fd). I somehow had managed to drop the css definition that makes the bars visible.

[kaapa]

Oh and forgot to report that the column set links bug has been resolved by 7f9450e9a53e20233a97e75978d2ebf902e7f335.

I think though, that we shouldn't merge until the Labelable refactoring (a8f20fa82ec0688a29191ccdcf8ba699feb3af31) has been addressed.

[aroop]

I have tested the record bar functionality and its working good now. I will keep testing for more issues.

[aroop]

navigation do
  visible false
end

throws an error at server start up and hide_from_navigation does not have any effect in jQuery branch. Both of them seems be working fine in the master

[kaapa]

That is in fact intentional, see 2253729ea063d523d7c528b26870a2a5c89a7f8f.

[aroop]

Oops sorry missed that

[kaapa]

No probs, I really appreciate the effort you're putting into testing the branch. It's a massive help! :)

[sferik]

Okay, I reverted a8f20fa82ec0688a29191ccdcf8ba699feb3af31. Let's merge this thing!

[kaapa]

Erik, will you do the merge or shall I?

I have one last minute minor fix to include (filtering multiselect has hardcoded word "teams" instead of the associated models label), although I can push it directly to master after merge as well.

[sferik]

I'll leave the honor of merging to you!

Feel fre to fix up the hardcoded multiselect on either side of the merge.

[kaapa]

Merged, happy times! :)

[JDutil]

Great work guys! I've been using the jquery branch the last week or so, and I'm glad to see it in master now.