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A live demonstration of this application is available at :

http://dev.nozav.org/ajaxtable/

This is a very common task in web application development. The interest to use Ajax for this is to provide a dynamic interface which doesn't need to reload the entire page when the table changes. The interest of using Rails is... well, if you are reading this you should already know, but Ajax is really nicely integrated with Rails, and using it is very easier with this great framework. Nevertheless, the code in this tutorial should work the traditional way (by reloading the entire page) if javascript is not available on client side. This is very important for accessibility.

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