To sweeten the waiting time to the next Rails release, here’s a short movie showing the new sortable_element helper in action: AJAX sortable element movie The code for this is actually a one-liner (including the effect). In your view do: <%= sortable_element ‘list’, :update => ‘list-info’, :complete => visual_effect(:highlight, ‘list’), :url => { :action => … Continue reading AJAX-enabled sortable elements in Rails, the movie