02 January 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Rails, CSRF and Ajax requests

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 [...]

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17 January 2008 ~ 7 Comments

Set focus on first field with jQuery

f you are using Prototype see this post. Setting focus on the first text field with jQuery is as simple as $(“input:text:first”).focus(); $(“input:text:visible:first”).focus(); Find more at http://docs.jquery.com/Selectors Update: If you are on Rails use auto_focusable_forms, dependency free plugin that will focus first input for you.

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