Question

I am writing my first Rails app using the twitter gem. I’m simply retrieving search results and trying to cycle through them individually every 5 seconds or so.

My thought was to create a variable and have this variable represent the array index and simply update this variable dynamically with Javascript (every 5 seconds or so). What’s the best way to achieve this on the client-side? AJAX? Javascript?

Does this make sense? I will be glad to provide more context if helpful. Thanks.

Answer 1

In my particular case, I used ruby’s .to_json method to convert the data and then manipulated it with javascript. This gave me the flexibility to loop through the data pretty seamlessly. Atleast it seemed to work for my particular situation. Thanks for the help guys!