Forum: Ruby on Rails Refresh tabs for every 5 minutes

I have a four tabs along with the menus in the left hand side. on
clicking each tab will populate corresponding data in the table.I need
to write a ajax method to refresh each tabs for every 5 minutes. Can
someone help with an example.

Maheswari Bala wrote in post #1090711:
> I have a four tabs along with the menus in the left hand side. on
> clicking each tab will populate corresponding data in the table.I need
> to write a ajax method to refresh each tabs for every 5 minutes. Can
> someone help with an example.

http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/met_win_setinterval.asp

I am assuming you know how to make a AJAX call. The above will explain 
how to set an interval to call your function periodically.