Travis Eubanks

You the man Oliver! I got my whenever up (think I have syntax correct) and also my rake task set up.

I'm having a brain fart on how to grab that data it retrieved in that task and place it in one of my controllers which eventually will be used in its view.

Ah Awesome okay. This is actually for when clicking on a link in my navbar. It delays to show the visiting page because of an api call its making to codeschool.com and teamtreehouse.com so it takes a tad before it returns the results and displaying the page.

This is why I initially wanted to add a processing indicator. BUT... to eliminate all this could I have some sort of like background job that runs once a day to get any updated data and store the results somewhere and then when I render that page I just grab those already retrieved results and display those?

Awesome, I'll try jquery it to listen for the click on the link, when it does I would then show that div? And that div would then 'disappear' because the new page would have been rendered? Then any css I would just add it to that div class and position it relative to its parent.

I think I got that right? I'm relatively new with using jquery.

Thanks man!

Im clicking a link in my navbar...If I wanted to get this same function but have the loading indicator display in the middle of the page instead how would I achieve this?

Could you render a partial or do

disable_with: "<div class="loading-indicator" <="" div="">" then css that class ?

Great response thanks man I'm going to try that out!

This was really good I love hearing/learning/ finding out about these little things that I dont think about or know about yet being a fresh programmer. From an experienced programmer, what would maybe be a cool app to make to help with practicing this even if it was just in one ruby file.

I think coming up with a simple 'idea' or 'game' to build to practice the idea comes so hard so that would be helpfull thanks man for all your services!