Microsoft is promoting an alternative to AJAX known as Asynchronous Ruby and XML (ARAX). At the RailsConf conference for Ruby on Rails developers, Job Lam, creator of the IronRuby project at Microsoft, said that as Microsoft's Silverlight rich Internet application environment is adopted, it will provide Ruby developers with a way to deliver AJAX-style applications without having to use JavaScript. Lam says using ARAX will allow Ruby developers to not have to use tools such as the Ruby JavaScript (RJS) utility for generating JavaScript code for the client. Lam demonstrated that IronRuby would allow Microsoft to dispatch simple Rail requests. "We showed some dynamic stuff happening--we demonstrated we could dispatch to a controller, which will render using a view," Lam says. "And then we showed we could use ActiveRecord to round-trip from SQL Server and return like a single row." Other functions are also on the way. "I don't think we can update or delete or any of that stuff yet," Lam says. "But that's coming."
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