# Drag and drop \> ajax?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/drag-and-drop-ajax/144386>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [July 29, 2008, 9:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/drag-and-drop-ajax/144386 "2008-07-29T09:26:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![remco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/9d8465/32.png) [@remco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/remco)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2008, 9:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/drag-and-drop-ajax/144386/1 "2008-07-29T09:26:41Z")

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Hi,

I want to develop a interface like Igoogle, where visitors can organize  
the elements on there webpage.

Wich helper must i use to realize this…is this act\_as\_list? or  
another solution?

Grtz…remco

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**Author:** ![remco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/9d8465/32.png) [@remco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/remco)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2008, 10:59am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/drag-and-drop-ajax/144386/2 "2008-07-29T10:59:07Z")

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This may depend on lots of details of your implementation.  
acts\_as\_list is more a database thing, to keep  
your items as a list. Not exactly IGoogle.

draggable\_element & drop\_receiving may be of some help,  
but still you’ll have to do a lot of pure javascript programming.