Change URL without actually changing?

rubyonrails-talk
1

This is called AJAX.

Ruby on Rails has excellent support for it.

http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/PrototypeHelper.html

2

You want to use window.location. Its not strictly ajax, its just javascript.

here ya go:

http://www.google.com/search?q=window.location+changing+url

- rob

3

Wouldn’t that trigger a reload of the page? You could have a look at StateManager from the exanimo site, it’s the only AJAX state manager I’ve found to work quite reliably on all browsers (including Safari).

Best regards

Peter De Berdt

4

No, not if you just modify the hash (aka fragment identifier - the piece after the '#').

see: http://ajaxpatterns.org/Unique_URLs#Solution

- Rob