= rails-extjs-direct
THIS GEM IS UNDER DEVELOPMENT AND WILL NOT YET WORK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://rubyforge.org/projects/rails-extjs/
http://www.extjs.com

== DESCRIPTION:

A series of components for implementing the Ext.Direct API specification in Rails 2.3 and higher.
Ext.Direct in Rails is implementede with Rack Middleware.

== FEATURES/PROBLEMS:

== SYNOPSIS:

<script>
Ext.Direct.addProvider({
    url: '/admin/rpc',  //<-- Note the url corresponding to Admin above.
    type: 'remoting',
    actions: {
        Users : [
            {name: 'load', len: 1},
            {name: 'save', len: 2},
            {name: 'create', len: 1},
            {name: 'destroy', len: 1}
        ]
    }
});
</script>

== REQUIREMENTS:

merb-parts

== INSTALL:

sudo gem install merb-extjs-parts

IMPORTANT:  This gem includes a required javascript file named "merb-extjs-direct.js" in the root of this gem.
Currently you MUST copy this file to your /public/javascripts directory and included it immediately the ext
framework's assets (ie: immediately after "ext-all.js").

merb-extjs-direct.js contains a couple of simple overrides of the Ext.Direct library which will rename two
HTTP request parameters to be more Merb/Rails-like.  By default, Ext.Direct uses the word "action" where Merb
uses "controller" and "method" vs "action".  Confusing, eh?  The HTTP params are actually renamed xcontroller
and xaction to not interfere with Merb reserved words.  If you don't see "xcontroller" / "xaction" params
in your Ajax requests, make sure you've got merb-ext-direct.js included.

In the future, I'll have >rake install automaticlly copy this file to /public/javascripts (Would anyone like to
contribute some code to do that?)

== LICENSE:

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2009 FIX

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
'Software'), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
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