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krunal shah
krunal shah

Reputation: 16339

Auto Refresh a page in Rails 3

How to periodically auto refresh page with paramaters in Rails 3?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 7589

Answers (2)

Obie
Obie

Reputation: 680

A completely different and more modern approach is to use a service such as PusherApp. It will open a socket to the Pusher server in Javascript and listen for events that should generate changes on your page.

http://pusherapp.com/docs/quickstart

Upvotes: 1

Andrew Marshall
Andrew Marshall

Reputation: 96914

Place the following HTML within the <head> of the applicable views. This should not be used when the page had POST parameters sent, only GET parameters. Change the 5 to the interval, in seconds, you want the page to refresh at.

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5" />

Though this works, I'd recommend considering using AJAX to refresh only the needed content which will not only be faster but less jolting to the user and will have a lower impact on your server's load.

This is not specific to Rails and applies to any webpage. Since Rails is server-side, and the server cannot control the browser, Rails has no control over page refreshing.

Upvotes: 14

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