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How do I update a page (a row on a table) dynamically?

Arjun Rajkumar asked in Rails

I have a page which displays all the products in a shop.

Each time a new product is added - two things happen.
1) The user is taken to the products/index page which shows a list of all the products added - including the new product.
2) A Sidekiq BG job starts. It basically goes to amazon and finds the price of the product added.

As the user is taken the products/index page after they add the product - they see that the new product is added (but the price and other info is empty). I want to somehow update this products/index page dynamically with the details of the new product (which is got via the Sidekiq worker).

I am just thinking how to approach this:

  • Should I somehow get the worker to access this page and update the details?
  • Should I do some polling method on the index page and just refresh it every few minutes.
  • Or should I explore Action Cable to do this.

Any help will be appreciated. Just not sure which is the recommended way to do this..

THank you!

Arjun

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ActionCable works great for this. Once the background job retrieves the data, you can have it send an updated partial over to the user and replace it on the page. I do this for server and app status updates on Hatchbox. Works great.

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