Vertical slide

Rails
1

Hi Everyone,

I have a page where I would like to implement something like this:
http://livingsocial.com/
I tried periodically_call_remote ajax helper, but it’s not working. It
is giving me all the records at a time, whereas I want records one by
one.

I need suggestions, please reply

Thanks
Puneet

2

Hi,
Taking a look to this site seems you need to do something like:

  1. Selecting all events not displayed
  2. Update the vertical slide with the first event from the list you
    obtain
    in the Step 1.
  3. Mark this event was displayed
  4. Back to Step 1

May be you should have some “state” and “created_at” fields in you
events
table ir order do the detalide steps:

  1. Select all events with state = “not displayed” order them by the
    “created_at” field
  2. Read the first Event from the list. If the list is empty, waste some
    time
    (configured ?) and Back to Step 1.
  3. Display it in the vertical slide.
  4. Update the state field to “duisplayed”
  5. Write the event.
  6. Back to the Step 1.

If you like this logic…then let´s Rails IT !!!

FF

2009/9/8 puneetpandey85 [email protected]

3

Hi Fabian,

Looks like I am heading into the right direction, but I think I have to
add
some ajax flavor in it to make it working. Yestarday I worked on it and
I
realized that periodically_call_remote can help me out of this… When I
looked at the javascripts which http://livingsocial.com has used, I’ve
found
that they are using JSON in some ways… and that’s make me worrying :frowning:

Now the point is like I will implement the database part of it… now
comes
the slider. What do I need for that? any javascript, jquery, prototype
libraries I have to use?

I will be very glad if you will help me with some sample codes and some
links which can help me to achieve this…

BTW thanks a ton for giving your valuable response :slight_smile:

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 4:19 AM, FabianF [email protected] wrote:

  1. Select all events with state = “not displayed” order them by the

http://livingsocial.com/

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Thanks and Regards

Puneet Pandey
Ruby on Rails Developer

In Puneet’s Lab: http://www.puneetpandey.com