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I saw comments in a previous question saying that it is best to use Prototype with Rails. However, my own experience is that Jquery is a superior Javascript library. Being new to Rails, I have not yet investigated how to use Jquery with Rails but I assumed this would work. Is it correct that this may be a problematic combination – especially in relation to Ajax – and that I may need to use Prototype instead?
I’ve worked on all my projects since 3 years with rails and (exclusively) jquery. Never really encountered any (serious) problems so far.
There is a plugin called jrails, which acts as a drop-in replacement for prototype.
http://github.com/aaronchi/jrails/tree/master
Update: with it you can get all of the same default Rails helpers for javascript functionality using