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Lazy Load Content

Sometimes a portion of your page takes a really long time to generate and render. Instead of allowing the user to spin his thumbs, you can display the bulk of content to user and send off a separate ajax request to gather the “slow” data. Lazy Load Content makes late loading a portion of your page through ajax as easy as setting up a remote_function call. With options to render fragment cached if they exist, and perform the late load if not, your app will fly like the sloth eating eagle.

Install

ruby script/plugin install  http://arperftoolkit.rubyforge.org/svn/trunk/lazy_load_content/

Copy the file javascripts/lazyLoadContent.js into your public/javascripts folder and include it with prototype.js in your views.

The Basics:

In your rhtml or haml file:

<h1> I love giraffes.. basically </h1>
<% lazy_load(:remote => {:update => 'lazyLoadContent', :url => {:action => 'lazy_load_action'}})do -%>
  <div id = "lazyLoadContent"> We wait while the giraffes are smelling themselves. </div>
<% end -%>

In your controller define the specified function

def lazy_load_action
  render :text => 'The giraffes are ready!'
end

When the page loads, the loading text is displayed: We wait while the giraffes are smelling themselves.
Then after the ajax call we see: The giraffes are ready!

…….. and more……….

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