How do I make an Ajax call when a page loads?

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Hi all,

I have a view in which periodically_call_remote is updating a partial every 5 seconds. Actually, the updating is getting done in an rjs which also calls effect.highlight (via visual_effect :highlight) on table elements that have a certain CSS class assigned to them. I would like this Effect.Highlight functionality to occur on page load as well as every 5 seconds, so I want to make an extra call to the same action that is currently getting called by the periodically_call_remote statement.

What is the best way to make an Ajax call as soon as the page has loaded?

Thanks in advance!

Henry

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Have never done it, but I'm guessing that you could do:

<body onload="new Ajax.Request('/path/you/want/to/call')">