Rails - Feb 2007 - Dynamic content without periodically_call_remote

I want to display a message from a list of messages and have it change
to the next message every 10 seconds.

I have achieved this by putting the following javascript into my rhtml
file...

<div id=''dynamic_message''></div>
<script type="text/javascript">
  var messages=["Message One", "Message Two", "Message
Three"]
  var message=0;
  new PeriodicalExecuter(function() {$("dynamic_message").innerHTML
messages[message++%messages.length];}, 10);
</script>

Is there a railsy way of achieving the same thing?

The only thing I could find was periodically_call_remote which I
didn''t want to use because it would need to contact the server for
every update which isn''t efficient.


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reed wrote:
> The only thing I could find was periodically_call_remote which I
> didn''t want to use because it would need to contact the server for
> every update which isn''t efficient.
If you don''t pass an :url into periodically_call_remote, it
won''t hit a
server, and it will call your function from (at least) the :with argument:

  periodically_call_remote( :frequency => 1,
                            :with =>
''function("argument")'' )

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