Auto Refresh a page in Ruby on Rails

Question

I am a newbie in Ruby On Rails, Can someone tell me how to refresh a page.

Without any values submitted
With previous values submitted

When you say "refresh" do you mean the page will automatically refresh itself every "n" minutes, or is there a control (e.g., button) that the user will activate to refresh the page? — BryanH
– BryanH, Commented Jan 19, 2010 at 19:58

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:07:05Z

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ActionView::Helpers::PrototypeHelper#periodically_call_remote:

Without any values submitted

<%= periodically_call_remote(:url => {}) %>

With previous values resubmitted:

<%= periodically_call_remote(:url => params) %>

You can provide a :frequency option to specify how often to call it.

You may also want to set up the format.js block in the controller to render an RJS template that will only update things that could change.

Edit: This approach was deprecated with version Rails 3.0

This question (Rails 3 equivalent for periodically_call_remote) provides a method for accomplishing this in newer versions of Ruby on Rails.

edited May 23, 2017 at 12:07

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answered Jan 19, 2010 at 20:02

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Bach Over a year ago

Your link seems to be broken.

EmFi Over a year ago

Not broken, just deprecated. I've updated the link to point to the documentation of the last version of rails this was supported, I've also added a link to answer that provides an method of accomplishing this in newer versions of Rails.

abcreddy · Accepted Answer · 2012-11-23 14:01:26Z

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You could also use the below script to auto refresh a full page...

setTimeout("location.reload();",10000);

answered Nov 23, 2012 at 14:01

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abcreddy Over a year ago

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