Do you want me to do all the research first and have the answers or do it out loud like we did last time?
I think the question might be better suited for the plugin developers. On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Trish <[email protected]> wrote: > Okay, so I am very new to this jQuery stuff, and it seems like I'm > just going round and round on this... so I'm hoping someone can help. > > I have a table that will have a image on each row that when click, it > adds a row with more details below the current row. The details will > all be pulled from rails. > > I am using the DataTables plugin for jQuery for my table and am basing > my code off of this example: > > http://datatables.net/examples/api/row_details.html > > The example adds the row without going to the server, so I have > modified fnFormatDetails to hit the server. > > my modified code is this: > > function fnFormatDetails ( oTable, nTr ) > { > return jQuery.post('<%= url_for :action=>"field_details" %>', {}, > null, 'html'); > } > > I have also tried multiple variations of this, and can't get anything > to work. > > I am hitting my action just fine, and it is parsing the view (as seen > with log statements), but when the row displays on the screen, I see: > > [object XMLHttpRequest] > > instead of the text. I have also tried just a plain > render(:text=>"some text", :layout=>"false") in my action, and have > the same results. > > All the documentation I see makes me believe that the $.post method > should be returning html. > > I have viewed this with FireBug, and it sees the response as the text > I gave. > > As a side note, I chose to use the $.post method instead of the $.get > method because $.get was returning a 304 error. I get the 200 code > for $.post. > > Also, I have tried this with both jQuery 1.4 and the jQuery instance > provided with the plugin. > > Thanks in advance! > Trish > > -- > 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]<rubyonrails-talk%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > > -- 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.
