Thieves Like Us: Rails is just an API

So what’s the future for Rails? If you talk to the likes of 37Signals and GitHub, it’spjaxand server side rendering. This involves fetching a partial of HTML from the server with Ajax, updating the page and changing the URL with HTML5 pushState. The advantages of this approach are clear. It’s simple, fits in well with the existing methodology and doesn’t require using much JavaScript.