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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.

Specification Clicking a star rating turns on the stars to the left of the star I clicked. Clicking a star submits the star rating. When I refresh the page, the star ratings should be persistent. We’ll be using Rails’ functions including: form_for hidden_field Rails Helpers We’ll be using jQuery functions including: click each ajax <code> [...]

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.

Sometimes it's nice to show how many times a page has been bookmarked on Delicious. In this screencast we'll show you how. We'll use HTML5 to help compliment the client side scripting to find out how many times each page has been bookmarked. We'll be building on top of what...

To mark AJAX's birthday on 18th March, we've put together a screencast to show you how to create your very own AJAX-updating countdown website for the big day. We're using Haml, Sinatra and jQuery to do this and recommend you look at our introduction videos if you're not familiar with...

Overview jQuery has an arsenal of tools for you to include dynamic data in your web application. There are many different techniques which may suit one situation over another. In this screencast we'll show you several ways that jQuery can load information off the web, which you can start using...

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.