Hello,
I am making an application in which I have a div where a new news is
flashed
after every 5 second or so automatically. By automatically, I mean user
does
not send any request to server by clicking on anything. The approach I
think
which might work is - for news div, I call a javascript function on
onload
event function of the div, which after every 5 second sends an ajax
request
to server and update that div with a new content. However, as I
understand
that this thing needs to be implemented as a separate thread so that
rest of
the components on the webpage remains interactable. Is this the right
approach to solve this or is there a better way to do it?
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Thanks,
Jaikishan
On 11 Dec 2008, at 02:53, Jaikishan J. wrote:
However, as I understand that this thing needs to be implemented as
a separate thread so that rest of the components on the webpage
remains interactable.
That’s not true.
Fred
Solving the similar problem, I am not sure if my previous approach was
the
right way. Another thing I could think of is that my server keeps
sending
data to my client side proactively for every 5 seconds. How that can be
acheived in rails?
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 2:30 PM, Frederick C. <
[email protected]> wrote:
Fred
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Thanks,
Jaikishan
Jaikishan,
There’s no such thing in HTTP. The server can only answer client
requests, not the other way around.
Your 1st approach is correct, except your assumption of needing a
separate thread. What Fred meant is that exactly that, you don’t need
a separate thread. Your regular Rails app should be more than capable
to respond to these AJAX requests.
Cheers, Sazima
On Dec 11, 10:28 am, “Jaikishan J.” [email protected] wrote:
Solving the similar problem, I am not sure if my previous approach was the
right way. Another thing I could think of is that my server keeps sending
data to my client side proactively for every 5 seconds. How that can be
acheived in rails?
You can use periodically_call_remote:
http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/PrototypeHelper.html#M001427