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The Legend of Sleepy Follow

by Rich Thornett Pro Dec 7, 2010
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  1. Pro Rich_thornett_280_gray Rich Thornett

    I subscribe to several Dribbble RSS feeds from which I'm constantly clicking through to shot pages. I can never remember which feed I'm coming from (Following v. Everyone) and it drives me crazy that I have to click through to the user page to tell whether I'm already following the owner of a shot I like. So ...

    We've added a convenience to shot pages to show following status and follow/unfollow without having to navigate to the player page. Having said that - if you're unfamiliar with a player but like what you see, check them out!

    Nerdly addendum: The follow helper worked out of the box (box?) when dropped into the page. (Well, with some styling from Mr. Bits.) Modularity FTW!

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    over 1 year ago

  2. Pro Josh_hemsley Josh Hemsley

    Yes yes and yes! Thanks you kind sir. Im was finding the back and forth clicks to see my follow status of other players quite tiresome. Glad I wasn't the only one :)

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    over 1 year ago

  3. Pro Rich_thornett_280_gray Rich Thornett

    Sorry, I should add that this isn't pushed just yet. But it will be soon.

    over 1 year ago

  4. Pro Josh_hemsley Josh Hemsley

    lol I noticed that VERY quickly :)

    over 1 year ago

  5. Pro 500 Mackey Saturday

    Thanks Rich! I'm super excited for this. Great idea!

    over 1 year ago

  6. Pro Avatar-new Andrew Cornett

    Love it dude

    over 1 year ago

  7. Pro Photo_oct_27__9_07_38_pm_copy Henry Moran

    Fantastic feature Rich!

    over 1 year ago

  8. Pro 80x80 dribbble b Gert Jan Lodder

    Great feature Rich!

    over 1 year ago

  9. Pro Rich_thornett_280_gray Rich Thornett

    Ok, now it's pushed. Hope you find it useful.

    over 1 year ago

  10. 183472_10150422329360147_826450146_17478064_1872141_n Cai Cardenas

    Awesome!

    over 1 year ago

  11. Photo_41 Dave Rupert

    Way cool. Did you just set up a `current_user.is_following` scope? Or is there a `follow_helper.rb` that i don't know about :)

    over 1 year ago

  12. Pro Rich_thornett_280_gray Rich Thornett

    @Dave I probably exaggerated the awesomeness of what's going on, but I'm always happy (read: relieved) when something just works. We have a follow_prompt Rails helper method and simply called it from the new page and it spit out a working follow button.

    Ingredients are JavaScript, a partial containing the follow form markup and use of standard Rails associations wrapped by a User.follows?(other_user) method. But the key is using unobtrusive JavaScript that simply attaches the ajax behavior to any occurrence of the follow button markup. So wherever it appears (quite a few places now, styled per context by the Fantastic Mr. Bits), it works. No rocket science, but anything I don't have to code again pleases me.

    over 1 year ago

  13. Pixelavatar_large_16_color Chris Wallace!

    jQuery.live()?

    over 1 year ago

  14. Pro Rich_thornett_280_gray Rich Thornett

    @Chris Yes. $('.follow-prompt a').live('click', ...);

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    over 1 year ago

  15. Pixelavatar_large_16_color Chris Wallace!

    That's how I would do it, so that means it's the right way.

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    over 1 year ago

  16. Pro Fallbeard Ethan Geyer

    Rich, I'm loving this. Thanks for your work!

    over 1 year ago

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