自动在Rails 3中使用Ajax将新记录加载到页面中？

Question

I'm trying to figure out how to load new records into a page through ajax (I assume) - think twitter or gmail. Any ideas where to start with this one?

Also I'm using rails 3, and jquery

Answer 1

Hugely deep topic, so I'll scope my answer to the start part.

Start with loading new records on refresh. This will take a fair bit of development as it is, because you have to track when you last loaded, how many records, are you close to hitting the API rate limiter (is there one), fetching only the new ones from the service and appending to the ones you already have.

Once you've solved all of that and have a working page, we can start talking about how to do it through ajax.