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I am learning Rails 3 and need some help on Ajax part. I am trying to accomplish the following: There is a textarea on the page which has a length of letters constraint, say 100. Every time a symbol is typed there,a nearby label tells you how many letters you have left. I plan to use Ajax to do this. I googled for a few hours and could not figure out how to do this. So far what I have done is