Question

I’ve installed https://github.com/lleger/Rails-3-jQuery and it worked fine, however, the rails helpers that I was using with prototype stopped working.

How can I get back to using prototype in order to use the rails helpers OR make the helpers work with jQuery (the last would be the ideal solution).

Thanks

Answer 1

Actually, the gem you are using is not good enough. You should be using jquery-rails.
Install as follows

gem install jquery-rails

or add it to your Gemfile

gem 'jquery-rails'

and then do

rails g jquery:install

This not only removes the prototype.js, and downloads the jquery, but also (importantly!) downloads the adapted rails.js that works with jquery and will make sure that all standard rails-helpers will keep on working.