this seems to be sufficient to update the documents

app/assets/javascripts/routes/documents.js.coffee.erb

@@ -5,16 +5,8 @@ LiveReader.DocumentsRoute = Ember.Route.extend
     # Setup Pusher
     pusher = new Pusher('8146487894a3cc81758c')
     @set('pusher', pusher)
+
     channel = pusher.subscribe('<%= Rails.env %>_main_channel')
-    channel.bind 'update', (payload) =>
-      # TODO: Clean up this big ugly chunk of procedural code
-      payload.updated_at = new Date(payload.updated_at)
+
+    channel.bind 'patch', (payload) =>
       doc = @model().find((item) => item.get('id') == payload.id)
-      # debugger
-      if doc
-        doc.setProperties
-          title: payload.title
-          body: payload.body
-          updated_at: payload.updated_at
-      else
-        doc = LiveReader.Document.createRecord(payload)

app/assets/javascripts/spotlight.js.coffee.erb

@@ -27,6 +27,20 @@ channel.bind 'update', (payload) =>
         y = el.position()['top'] - 100
         $.scrollTo(y)
 
-
-
-
+channel.bind 'patch', (payload) =>
+  $.ajax "/api/v1/documents/" + payload.id,
+    type: "GET"
+    dataType: "json"
+    success: (data) ->
+      document = data.document
+      oldText = split $(".text").html().trim()
+      $("h1").html(document.title)
+      $(".text").html(document.body)
+      newText = split $(".text").html().trim()
+      try
+        for snippet, i in newText
+          if newText[i] != oldText[i]
+            parsedSnippet = $("<p>#{snippet}</p>").text()
+            el = $(":contains(#{parsedSnippet})").last()
+            y = el.position()['top'] - 100
+            $.scrollTo(y)

app/controllers/writeroom/documents_controller.rb

@@ -36,7 +36,8 @@ def update
     @document = Document.find(params[:id])
 
     if @document.update(document_params)
-      Pusher.trigger(pusher_channel, 'update', @document.to_pusher)
+      Pusher.trigger(pusher_channel, 'patch', 
+                     { id:         @document.id.to_s })
     end
     respond_with @document
   end