writing to a remote SQL Server w/javascript

rubyonrails-talk
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I'm working on a new project, and I'm having trouble wrapping my head around how I should structure this. I have a Ruby on Rails server that is hosting everything. I also have a few client machines, laptops and phones that will have a small app on them.

Every 5 seconds I need these apps to send a reading back to the server, which is going to store them it in a database in addition to a local copy.

I was looking at how I could do this using Javascript on the clients, and Rails on the server. Would the Rails ActiceWebService work? The client side is html/javascript ONLY, that's stuck in stone, but I'm not worried about that, clientside I can do everything I need, it's just the sending of the data to the rails server that I'm perplexed about.

Any thoughts?

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Actionwebservice is for soap requests - not what you want here! Your client side Javascript can make http requests - read up on ajax.

Fred

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Hi Fred,

Thank's for the direction, I'll give that a go.