On 17 December 2011 20:06, Jay Chaun <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote: > I am learning Rails 3 and need some help on Ajax part. > > I am trying to accomplish the following: > There is a textarea on the page which has a length of letters > constraint, say 100. Every time a symbol is typed there,a nearby label > tells you how many letters you have left. > > I plan to use Ajax to do this.
If you do that then every time a letter is typed it will have to send a request to the server, which is a bad idea. Use javascript instead. Colin -- 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.
