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RailsCasts #294 Playing with PJAX
Railscasts - 2011-10-31 - free
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.
Watch this screencastRailsCasts #260 Messaging with Faye
Railscasts - 2011-04-04 - free
Faye is a subscription/publishing server which makes it easy to do push notifications within a Rails app.
Watch this screencastRailsCasts #258 Token Fields
Railscasts - 2011-03-21 - free
With the jQuery Tokeninput plugin it is easy to add an autocompleting list of entries for a many-to-many association.
Watch this screencastRailsCasts #248 Offline Apps Part 2
Railscasts - 2011-01-10 - free
Learn how to make a site usable offline with HTML 5 localStorage. This last part of the series covers jquery-tmpl and jquery-offline.
Watch this screencastRailsCasts #246 AJAX History State
Railscasts - 2010-12-27 - free
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.
Watch this screencastRailsCasts #240 Search, Sort, Paginate with AJAX
Railscasts - 2010-11-15 - free
Many administration pages have search, sorting, and pagination on the index page. See how to add all of this including AJAX.
Watch this screencastRailsCasts #229 Polling for Changes
Railscasts - 2010-08-30 - free
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.
Watch this screencastRailsCasts #205 Unobtrusive Javascript
Railscasts - 2010-03-15 - free
Keep JavaScript out of your HTML content with unobtrusive JavaScript. Here I show how Rails 3 works with this best practice.
Watch this screencastRailsCasts #197 Nested Model Form Part 2
Railscasts - 2010-01-18 - free
Add and remove nested model fields dynamically through JavaScript using either Prototype or jQuery.
Watch this screencastRailsCasts #175 AJAX History and Bookmarks
Railscasts - 2009-08-17 - free
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.
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