release_5.md

Release 5: Asynchronous Page Updates

Learning Competencies

• Understand how to implement AJAX in Rails

Summary

For this release, you are now going to limit the number of synchronous requests your users have to make. You will be implementing AJAX in Rails.

As you are changing your controller methods, you should be sure to update your testing suite to conform to the new setup.

Features

• The new question form should update the question index page asynchronously.
• The new answer form should update the question show page asynchronously.
• The question upvote and downvote links should update the question index page asynchronously.
• The answer upvote and downvote links should update the question show page asynchronously.