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reading parameters and files on browser, looking how to execute on server

I have a site done in Rails, which uses javascript to load files and generate forms for the user to input certain information. Those files and parameters are then to be used in a fortran code on the ...
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Performing client-side OAuth authorized Twitter API calls versus server side, how much of a difference is there in terms of performance?

I'm working on a Twitter application in Ruby on Rails. One of the biggest arguments that I have with other people on the project is the method of calling the Twitter API. Before, everything was done ...
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easiest way for push notifications

I wanted to implement real time push notification to one of the apps written in RoR. I don't have any experience with nodejs, nowjs, express or socketio. What would be the easiest way to implement ...
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Backbone.js, Rails and code duplication

I'm building a web app and I need a JS framework like Backbone.js to work with my backend provided by Rails that mostly return JSON objects after DB queries. Searching on the web I've discovered ...
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When to use JavaScript instead of Ruby in web development?

Right now I am developing web applications with ruby-on-rails. Sometimes I am having a hard time deciding which language to chose to solve my problems. The difference between HTML,CSS and the ...
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Starting my first RoR project, what JS library is good to go with it?

I'm starting my first Ruby on Rails project as I've been excited about the language for quite a while now and I'm sick of writing PHP. I've gathered that rails is pretty much an automation framework ...