RFine wrote: > > render :partial => 'comments/partial_name' > > If I change it to : > > render :partial => 'comments/partial_name.html.erb' > > and it works. It appears as though the fact that the call is a JSON > request from the client is causing the render engine not to search > for .html and .html.erb in the path, thus they fail.
You got it. Why are you returning .html from a ajax/json request from the client, anyway? Generally, ajax requests from the client get back javascript (or specifically json), not html! Rails is trying to help you with this general case, because you can have the same action that will return partial.html.erb if it's an html request, or partial.js.erb if it's an AJAX request. I forget exactly how Rails determines when the format is js, but I know if you're using any of the Rails helper methods for ajax callbacks, they definitely include a query param to tell Rails what's what. So you can change the render call like you say. Or you COULD rename the partial in the old way partial_name.erb, so Rails will use it for any format request. But that's kind of weird (and now i'm not entirely sure it'll work). Or you could reconsider why you want to return HTML (rather than js/json) to a js request in the first place. Or you could take a look at respond_to to see how you can return different views for different request types. http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionController/MimeResponds/InstanceMethods.html#M000368 -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
