The folk who develop Prototype & Scriptaculous are mostly Rails users, and the libraries are bundled with Ruby on Rails. Nonetheless, the libraries stand on their own, and can be used with any server-side technology. I'm keen to spread the
word outside the Rails community, so we picked a couple of popular languages that we knew well enough - Java and PHP.
However, we felt we needed a good chapter on the Rails integration too, which is where Tom Locke - the man behind the excellent Hobo plugin for Rails - came in.
The core emphasis throughout the book, though is Javascript, Javascript, Javascript
Dave
