# How to make back button and bookmarks for rails

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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [February 15, 2008, 6:54am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-make-back-button-and-bookmarks-for-rails/129185 "2008-02-15T06:54:48Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 6:54am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-make-back-button-and-bookmarks-for-rails/129185/1 "2008-02-15T06:54:48Z")

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Hi to all,  
i am working in one application which is having full and full  
ajax request like link\_to\_remote,form\_remote\_tag,render\_component  
etc…mainly component oriented architecture,so if we click the back  
button on the browser it goes to main page.if user read one article  
under the article tab and he wants to bookmark that article then the url  
having no data to bookmark that particular article (e.x  
[demo.mydomain.com/app](http://demo.mydomain.com/app)) thats all.So user cannot bookmark this  
article,how can i implement the back button and bookmarks for my  
application.if any one know the solution please let it me know.

Thanks,  
Balakrishnan

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**Author:** ![balavrscse](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/a88e4f/32.png) [@balavrscse](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/balavrscse)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 9:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-make-back-button-and-bookmarks-for-rails/129185/2 "2008-02-15T09:25:46Z")

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On 15 Feb 2008, at 06:54, Bala Krishnan wrote:

> ```
> i am working in one application which is having full and full
> 
> ```
> 
> ajax request like link\_to\_remote,form\_remote\_tag,render\_component  
> etc…mainly component oriented architecture,so if we click the back  
> button on the browser it goes to main page.if user read one article  
> under the article tab and he wants to bookmark that article then  
> the url  
> having no data to bookmark that particular article (e.x  
> [demo.mydomain.com/app](http://demo.mydomain.com/app)) thats all.So user cannot bookmark this  
> article,how can i implement the back button and bookmarks for my  
> application.if any one know the solution please let it me know.

You’ll have to implement it yourself:  
[http://exanimo.com/javascript/using-the-statemanager-in-ajax-apps/](http://exanimo.com/javascript/using-the-statemanager-in-ajax-apps/)  
[http://code.google.com/p/reallysimplehistory/](http://code.google.com/p/reallysimplehistory/)

Best regards

Peter De Berdt