Hi Michael, I use the "widgets" approach. I've summed it up for you in this gist https://gist.github.com/4133761
Too long to fit in here. But I basically use data-attributes and JS "widgets" that work against those attributes. Trying to make them easily reusable so we can combine any of them. There were a few issues with event sequences and cross-browser-ing, but were eliminate by "doing it better". Cheers. Regards, Dmytrii Nagirniak http://ApproachE.com <http://www.ApproachE.com> On 21 November 2012 20:01, Michael Pearson <mipear...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for recommendations as to the best way to create & manage > buttons that perform an action on an object and then update a portion of > the page with a response from the server. > > This was relatively simple in Rails 2.3 land: the now removed > link_to_remote method ( > http://apidock.com/rails/ActionView/Helpers/PrototypeHelper/link_to_remote) > would automagically generate javascript that would ask your Rails app for a > snippet and then replace part of the page with that snippet. > > It was, of course, messy as hell, which I think is why it got removed. > > Looking for something that does something similar in 3.x land hasn't > gotten me very far: the consensus seems to be "write your own damn > javascript". We've done so so far, but it's never been quite as easy as the > old helper methods. > > Also, I'm haunted by the "doing it wrong" spectre: the way we're doing it > is simply aping the way the 2.3 helpers used to work, except with hand > written UJS rather than generated RJS. > > The example I'm working on right now is a button that, while editing a > user, allows the administrator to forgive a user's past invoices. The > button is within an existing form. The code, right now, is bloody terrible: > > = link_to "Cancel Outstanding Invoices", > cancel_outstanding_invoices_user_path(@user), :class => "btn btn-danger", > :id => "cancel-outstanding-invoices", :remote => true, :method => :post > :javascript > $('#outstanding-invoices').bind('ajax:success', > function(event, data) { $('#outstanding-invoices').html(data); }); > > The Rails action simply performs a "render :text =>". > > There's a whole bunch of better ways I can think of doing the above - even > ways that allow me to make the Javascript code completely generic. However, > I'd rather see how others do it first. > > -- > Michael Pearson > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To post to this group, send email to rails-oceania@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to rails-oceania@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
