I''m working on a new project, and I''m having trouble wrapping my head around how I should structure this. I have a Ruby on Rails server that is hosting everything. I also have a few client machines, laptops and phones that will have a small app on them. Every 5 seconds I need these apps to send a reading back to the server, which is going to store them it in a database in addition to a local copy. I was looking at how I could do this using Javascript on the clients, and Rails on the server. Would the Rails ActiceWebService work? The client side is html/javascript ONLY, that''s stuck in stone, but I''m not worried about that, clientside I can do everything I need, it''s just the sending of the data to the rails server that I''m perplexed about. Any thoughts?
On Jun 15, 6:45 pm, naevity <jonathan.mulc...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:> > I was looking at how I could do this using Javascript on the clients, > and Rails on the server. Would the Rails ActiceWebService work? The > client side is html/javascript ONLY, that''s stuck in stone, but I''m > not worried about that, clientside I can do everything I need, it''s > just the sending of the data to the rails server that I''m perplexed > about.Actionwebservice is for soap requests - not what you want here! Your client side Javascript can make http requests - read up on ajax. Fred
Hi Fred, Thank''s for the direction, I''ll give that a go. On Jun 15, 1:54 pm, Frederick Cheung <frederick.che...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:> On Jun 15, 6:45 pm, naevity <jonathan.mulc...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote: > > > > > I was looking at how I could do this using Javascript on the clients, > > and Rails on the server. Would the Rails ActiceWebService work? The > > client side is html/javascript ONLY, that''s stuck in stone, but I''m > > not worried about that, clientside I can do everything I need, it''s > > just the sending of the data to the rails server that I''m perplexed > > about. > > Actionwebservice is for soap requests - not what you want here! > Your client side Javascript can make http requests - read up on ajax. > > Fred