> Given that this is all client side, what would a rails implementation > be (maybe the odd helper function but the lack of them certainly > shouldn't stop you getting started). > > As far as your particular case goes all you need is something on the > page that every however often pings your controller to say 'do you > have any more data for me'. It would be wise to push the actual > scraping into a separate process >
Thanks Frederick, cna you (or anybody reading this) provide me with some helper names or subject names that i should be investigating re: pining the controller? is this a common rails thing? thanks so far for your help -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
