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PJAX allows you to quickly update a section of a page using AJAX with automatic pushState support. Here I show how to use both pjax_rails and rack-pjax gems.

Faye is a subscription/publishing server which makes it easy to do push notifications within a Rails app.

With the jQuery Tokeninput plugin it is easy to add an autocompleting list of entries for a many-to-many association.

Learn how to make a site usable offline with HTML 5 localStorage. This last part of the series covers jquery-tmpl and jquery-offline.

The new pushState function in JavaScript allows us to change the full URL with AJAX. This means the back button, reloading, and bookmark support can be easily added.

Many administration pages have search, sorting, and pagination on the index page. See how to add all of this including AJAX.

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.

Add and remove nested model fields dynamically through JavaScript using either Prototype or jQuery.

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.