How to auto-slide the homepage carousel with rails views content (not images)

Question

Is it possible to build a landing page, which slide automatically between 3 or 4 different partial views? Every partial will print a different view of the same data model (not an image slideshow per se), something like top 3 of something, top 3 of something else and so on for infinite loop.

I'm looking for a way to slide on 'pages' instead of 'images', may be loading a full view at the beginning with hidden sections to loop on? Or looping on #relative links in the same doc?

Another thing I thought, was an automatic paginator like will_paginate or Kaminari but looping called by an ajax, client side javascript cycle. I don't know if it is praticable and how can be done.

What do you say? Any suggestion will be welcome Luca

Answer 1

As partials are rendered server side you should follow your 'full view' idea. That is, render all of the slides/partials (representations of data as you describe but still slides) then use a javascript slider to display each in turn. This falls back for non-javascript users by displaying all slides.

I want to reiterate that you seem to be confused about server side rendering of partials. You cannot use a ruby daemon or scheduler to do this as you are sending the page to your user; once this has happened you have no control over the page (unless you use javascript to poll your server - I don't recommend you do this).