Second RailsBridge event

On Saturday I attended another Front-End RailsBridge event. As always, it was a great event organized by great people.

My group first started working on implementing a calendar-like app with jQuery. The idea was to create a simple calendar (just the front end of it), where one would be able to choose a date and set an event for that date.

However, later a smaller group (including myself) has broken off and started working on a Wacky Painter app. Here, the idea was to create a bunch of grids and to change the grid color on a mouseenter event.

While I have done a similar application in the past, it was good to see other approaches. Additionally, I learned how to populate a dropdown menu with jQuery. Assuming you have an array of colors and a div named dropdowns, the function looks like so:

window.populateMenu = function(){
    $(".dropdowns").find('option').remove();
    $(".dropdowns").append('<option value="'+'random'+'">'+'random'+'</option>');
    for(i = 0; i < colors.length; i++){
        $(".dropdowns").append('<option value="'+colors[i]+'">'+colors[i]+'</option>');
    }
}