ajax episodes

If you have frequently changing data on the server side, it's helpful to automatically display this to the user as well. Here I show how to accomplish this with polling in jQuery.

Keep JavaScript out of your HTML content with unobtrusive JavaScript. Here I show how Rails 3 works with this best practice.

Browser page history and bookmarks do not usually work with AJAX requests, but in this episode I show you how to remedy this problem using a simple jQuery plugin.

Learn an easy, unobtrusive way to add AJAX functionality to an existing set of pagination links using jQuery.

Use JavaScript to allow dynamic content in a page cache. In this episode I show you how to insert the user-specific content into a page through JavaScript.

Creating drag & drop sortable lists is fairly easy using Prototype and the built in helper methods. See how in this episode.

How do you use jQuery with Rails? In this episode I redo episode #43 using jQuery instead of Prototype/RJS.

Ever wondered how some sites seem to have endless scrolling page with no pagination? Find out how easy it is to do this in Rails in this episode.

Sometimes you need to display an administrative announcement to every page on the site and give the users the ability to hide the announcement. See how in this episode.

Usually a select menu is used for setting a belongs_to association, but in this episode I will show you how to use a text field with auto completion.