Thomas Fuchs
Hi, I'm Thomas Fuchs. I'm the author of Zepto.js, of script.aculo.us, and I'm a Ruby on Rails core alumnus. With Amy Hoy I'm building cheerful software, like Noko Time Tracking and Every Time Zone and write books like Retinafy.me.
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AJAX Activity indicators with Rails 0.14.3

November 14th, 2005

Step 1:

Create an element on the page that should be displayed while AJAX Requests are active. I mostly use an IMG element displaying an animated GIF file. Give this element an id="busy" attribute.

Step 2:

Create a file application.js in your public/javascripts folder (if you don’t already have one!), and be sure to use <%= javascript_include_tag :defaults %> in the HEAD section of your layout or view template to include the Rails-provided JavaScripts.

Insert the following code into the application.js file:


Ajax.Responders.register({
  onCreate: function() {
    if($('busy') && Ajax.activeRequestCount>0)
      Effect.Appear('busy',{duration:0.5,queue:'end'});
  },
  onComplete: function() {
    if($('busy') && Ajax.activeRequestCount==0)
      Effect.Fade('busy',{duration:0.5,queue:'end'});
  }
});

Step 3:

Enjoy!