Jack Bauer wrote:
> I do something similar in one of my apps. The way I handle it is using 
> periodically_call_remote every 6 seconds and check it against a 
> controller action which looks at the DB to see if any new records were 
> added for that user since the last time it checked. If there are, do a 
> render :update |page| and add an insert_html with the new record on top.
> 
> Naturally you can increase or decrease the time between checks, but I 
> figure 5-10 seconds should be good for anyone.
> 
> For my specific app, if I was scraping 5 items specifically, the 
> periodically_call_remote function would turn itself off after I returned 
> 5 records.

Hi Jack,

How do you turn off a periodically_call_remote? Also is it possible to 
call periodically_call_remote on some action?

Thanks,
Sudhindra
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