Frederick Cheung wrote: > On Nov 8, 3:36�pm, Nick S <[email protected]> wrote: >> Basically, clicking the textarea "chatbox" will add a line with the >> current time, and unfortunately, every click on the textarea results >> in the identical line being written, which is the time that the page >> was loaded. > > That's completely normal - At the point that the template is rendered > all of your <%= are evaluated - if you look at the source in the > browser you won't see any of your ruby code (and even if you could, > what's your browser supposed to do with ruby). If you need some ruby > code evaluated you need to make a request to the server
But in this case, you probably don't need a server request -- I think JavaScript has an equivalent to Time.now. In any case, I would advise against using ERb in JavaScript... > > Fred Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org [email protected] -- 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 [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
