Sam

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to mark messages as "seen" when the div has entered the user's view (for example, the Facebook behavior of seen posts). My current attempt is a mix of the Unread gem (https://github.com/ledermann/unread) and the isOnScreen Jquery plugin (https://github.com/moagrius/isOnScreen).

But my two biggest problems are,

1) how do I get the Javascript to account for all ActiveRecord entries on a page? For instance, I can provide <div id="post-<%= post.id %>">, but how would I test for every possible div?
2) Once the Javascript confirms that a div is in view, how do I get it to send that information to Rails (to create a record in the user_read_posts table)?

Am I approaching this the wrong way altogether?