As someone relatively new to Rails who is working on a "near" realtime system this was great, thanks for the article. Wanted to point out that you can simplify

As someone relatively new to Rails who is working on a "near" realtime system this was great, thanks for the article. Wanted to point out that you can simplify your "folder count updating" code by using a relatively unused jQuery function: ".load" [1]. $.get($section.attr('data-url')) .success(function (response) { $section.html(response); }); would become $section.load($section.data('url')); [1] http://jqapi.com/#p=load http://jqapi.com/#p=load