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Rails 3 - Using link_to but adding a # for AJAX Deep Linking

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I recommend instead of <a href="#/projects/1">Project 1</a> to have

<a href="/projects/1" class="deep_linker">Project 1</a>

And then use jQuery to attach to all links with class of deep_linker. That way your javascript is unobtrusive.

Jesse Wolgamott 2010-10-03 23:30:15

Hmm that's interesting... Whats wrong with doing this in Rails? Also, won't that be a huge performance hit on the client's browser?

AnApprentice 2010-10-03 23:45:22

No, you won't notice the hit for jQuery to select "a.deep_linker" and then attaching to its click event. There's nothing "wrong" with doing what you've said, but it guarantees that it won't work in a non-ajax environment.

Jesse Wolgamott 2010-10-03 23:56:17

Shoot. so I'm using jQuery BBQ for deep linking and this won't play nicely with that plugin.... so any solutions for making a link_deep_to in rails? So type of helper? I agree that it's not good for non-ajax env, but I know very few of those. And my app isn't to be crawled by google. I also don't want to overbuild so early?

AnApprentice 2010-10-04 00:08:57

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