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Jamie Barton
Jamie Barton
14,498 Points
Posted by Jamie Barton
Jamie Barton
14,498 Points

Vote up/down like on Treehouse forums

Hi guys

Quite new to Rails and I would love to implement a similar feature to my website for voting up and down content.

What I think would be better is a star, which when clicks replaces the empty star with a one which is perhaps filled, is that makes sense, or shows another class.

Anyways, when it is clicked again it would then do the reverse.

Would I use a format.js response to output some rendered javascript which outputs the new button and vise versa?

Thanks for any tips!

1 Answer

Brandon Barrette
Brandon Barrette
20,485 Points
Brandon Barrette
Brandon Barrette
20,485 Points

I would check out acts_as_votable gem, because you will need to store the users votes. Then use javascript to fill in the star (or replace the image) or vice-versa on click.