Ruby on Rails/AJAX

I have been reading quite a bit on AJAX and Ruby on Rails. I have finally installed it and started playing with it and am quite impressed. I have to note, our application at Three Deep was a full AJAX app, though it did maintain a much larger basis of data on the client side. However, we were doing a full desktop app way back then!

One of the features that I found "cute" when ROR was first starting to publicize everything were the different methods for fades. I totally understood the drag and drops, however, the fades didn't hit me as that huge. What's the big deal?

As I have started seeing more and more implementations, I am really impressed. Odeo has beautiful implementations of them. I was REALLY impressed with the log in functionality. One of the slickest I have ever seen. So damn cool.

So...I am sold. Awesome.