#390 Turbolinks

Nov 05, 2012 | 7 minutes | Performance, Ajax, Rails 4.0

Turbolinks can make your Rails app feel faster by using JavaScript to replace the page content when clicking a link. It will be default in new Rails 4.0 applications, but here I show how to use it in Rails 3 and mention some of the gotchas.

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