Re: [Rails] live search.....

On Feb 27, 2011, at 5:48 PM, Mauro wrote:

> Do you use ajax live searching?
> With rails 2 I had used observe_field.
> Now in rails 3 with unobtrusive javascript it can be used jquery and
> onkeyup event, but I don't like keyup, on every key I press there is a
> database search, it's too expensive.
> What solutions do you adopt?

each onkeyup restarts a timer, if the timer ever expires (100ms or so)
then fire the search.

Walter

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