Rails 3 equivalent for periodically_call_remote

Question

Seems like periodically_call_remote is deprecated in Rails 3, any ideas how to achieve the same functionality?

Answer 1

Use setInterval to periodically run a function which invokes an AJAX call. If you were doing it with jQuery, it might be something like:

var pollBackend = function() {
  $.getJSON("/foo/bar/poll");
}

setInterval(pollBackend, 5000);

This would attempt to poll the given URL for JSON data every 5 seconds.