Greg Donald wrote: > On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Marnen Laibow-Koser > <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote: >> Why do you prefer RJS to writing JavaScript? > > RJS is a template rendering system that also happens to execute JS. I > do not prefer one over the other, it's apples and oranges.
OK. Perhaps I should have asked *when* you prefer RJS. > > Controller action: > > def get_user > if request.xhr? > @user = User.find( params[:id] ) > end > end > > get_user.rjs: > > if @user > page.replace_html 'user_tab', :partial => 'user/user_form' > page << "$j( '#user_tab' ).fadeIn('slow');" > end Hmm. Why the visual effect here, rather than in the completion handler for the Ajax call? I guess I don't see the point of Rails writing JS, rather than simply handing a JSON packet to the client. I'll think about this further, though. > >>>> How do you keep the generated JavaScript out of your HTML? >>> >>> Partials. >>> >> Wouldn't that still put the JavaScript into your HTML files? > > Yup. Which I don't like to do. Thanks for confirming that this is actually the case. > > > -- > Greg Donald > destiney.com | gregdonald.com Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org mar...@marnen.org -- 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-t...@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.