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brunoc on Feb 17, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: How Basecamp Next got to be so damn fast without u...

Not with Rails, afaik. Assuming the routes are consistent, you simply add a 'respond' for JSON and send the relevant chunk of the model. Easy as pie.

nkohari on Feb 18, 2012 [–]

That assumes, of course, that the viewmodel used to render the server-side view is identical to the model you'd return serialized into JSON. That's mostly true, but not always.

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