Rob, kudos to your insight and brevity to convert that question into a rails response.
Sincerely, Dave Woodall davewoodall.com On Sun, Sep 16, 2018 at 7:33 AM, Rob Jonson <rob.jon...@gmail.com> wrote: > The rails way to do this (update page when stuff happens at the server) is > ActionCable > https://guides.rubyonrails.org/action_cable_overview.html > > It runs on websockets and allows the server to push information to the > browser. Your javascript on the page then needs to know what to do with > that information. > > It is typically slightly more complex to host than a 'regular' site as you > probably need Redis running. > > > > On Sunday, 16 September 2018 08:34:38 UTC+1, fugee ohu wrote: >> >> how does gmail make new messages appear in your browser as they arrive? >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/rubyonrails-talk/b89e6508-ea6a-4347-a42a- > bcc0f73717fe%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/b89e6508-ea6a-4347-a42a-bcc0f73717fe%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/CAJusp5F26JpV8LK8eZxfD-05uft%3DorTaYvYicM2Nuti5kE5Haw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
