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Ruby ActiveRecord Basics Introduction to ActiveRecord A Quick and Dirty Example

kenny trionfo
kenny trionfo
372 Points
Posted by kenny trionfo
kenny trionfo
372 Points

Auto refresh browser when you click on it

I'm wondering how you get the html page in the browser to auto refresh when you click on it. I can't find anything on it. I have looked through rails info, online etc. not finding it. tnx

3 Answers

Chris Shaw
Chris Shaw
26,676 Points
Chris Shaw
Chris Shaw
26,676 Points

Hi Kenny,

I don't believe you can actually do that, you can use tools such as LiveReload or CodeKit for Mac OS X to reload the page whenever you make changes to your HTML or CSS but I've never seen anything that simply reloads the page when you focus/click on it.

Stephen Blank
Stephen Blank
16,286 Points
Stephen Blank
Stephen Blank
16,286 Points

Adobe edge code will automatically show changes to HTML or CSS as well.

I found the following, but requires a button:

<input type="button" value="Reload Page" onClick="window.location.reload()">

Maybe you could make the button transparent and size it to fit the whole screen? :) Might be crazy.

fatih tas
fatih tas
13,181 Points
fatih tas
fatih tas
13,181 Points

nothing fancy there, he is just using CMD + R