Steve, When you reload/refresh the page, the browser remembers some of the current state of the page, so that a browser refresh is not the same as loading the page again - ie by resubmitting the url (which best simulates the effect you see after a validation error). It is easy to get fooled with this especially if you have js functions on the page.
In order to make sure the correct form/partial is redisplayed, you will need to make sure that information about which partial is currently displayed is available to the server in some way. In your case, that is going to be the value of the select control returned in the params hash which will need to control the creation of the page by setting the right partial to be displayed. Because you are showing/hiding the partials, then a way to do this is to not use a js function to set them to not display, but to do it using css styles which you can set up when the page is displayed. A little bit of logic in the page redisplay can then determine which partial should be displayed based on the params value of your select box. My personal preference to meet your needs would be to use the solution suggested by Bill, to use an observer on the select which would cause the required partial to be displayed. Using this approach keeps the server in control of what is being displayed. Tonypm -- 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.
