I got it into my head that pagination can use ajax calls so I can update the relevant portion of the page without reloading the entire thing ''.pagination a:click'': function() { new Ajax.Request(this.href, { asynchronous:true, evalScripts:true, method:''get''}); return false; } a little change in my controller and voila. except I then realized I''d just opened up a whole can of worms with ajax, url, browser history. doing some research, I found the solutions are rather complicated, browser dependent, and not completely satisfactory. e.g., http://ajaxpatterns.org/Unique_URLs#Solution does rails/rjs help us out here with some clever abstraction/library methods for handling this? thanks --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---