On Mar 31, 4:03 pm, dinoD <dinodorr...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Thanks Fred. I see in the code that you're correct (however that link
> implies that you can do this, it shows an example of how to add a
> script tag). So generically, is it ever possible to use an ajax call,
> such as link_to_remote, where response partial renders javascript?
>
I suppose you could just assign stuff to element.innerHTML without
using prototype. ALso prototype does actually eval the script tags, it
just doesn't leave them hanging around in the DOM.
Fred
> Thanks,
> Dino
>
> On Mar 31, 4:54 am, Frederick Cheung <frederick.che...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On Mar 31, 4:12 am, dinoD <dinodorr...@yahoo.com> wrote:> Thanks for the
> > reply. I'm writing the <script> code because i'm
> > > testing an example user of the widget, and it simply calls the website
> > > that generates the widget. so is there some escaping type issue that
> > > would prevent directly rendering a <script> tag from RJS?
>
> > Prototype strips script tags (seehttp://prototypejs.org/api/element/replace
> > )
>
> > Fred
>
> > > On Mar 30, 9:39 pm, Phlip <phlip2...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > dino d. wrote:
> > > > > I'm trying to create a widget where my rails code generates a fresh
> > > > > widget (which is javascript) to replace the old one. To do this, I
> > > > > need to insert new javascript with AJAX with RJS (so my partial begins
> > > > > with <script...). Is this possible? Right now, it replaces the old
> > > > > widget div with nothing and I get no errors. Is this a browser
> > > > > safeguard or something?
>
> > > > Wouldn't your controller action look like this?
>
> > > > def xhr_whatever
> > > > render :update do |rjs|
> > > > rjs.replace :my_div, '<script> js blah blah blah </script>'
> > > > end
> > > > end
>
> > > > The stack should handle escaping, javascript-ing, escaping,
> > > > transmitting,
> > > > de-escaping, evaluating, and de-escaping that.
>
> > > > But I'm sure there's a better way to write your actual feature. I sling
> > > > Ajax
> > > > here and there all the time and never once found a need to push a
> > > > '<script>'...
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