Thanks Marnen but it sounds like I could use some help from a Rails
3 / AJAX guru on this one. Anyone?
On Sep 23, 4:51 pm, Marnen Laibow-Koser <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> nobosh wrote:
> > Thanks Marnen. I feel ok about how AJAX works perhaps I wasn't asking
> > the question well enough. I did a little more digging and can show an
> > example that might help clear out what I'm working to understand in
> > Rails 3....
>
> I've never used Rails 3, and I do little enough Ajax development that I
> have to check references every time. But with that in mind...
>
>
>
> > The goal, is to be able to inject html content into a contentPanel on
> > a page w/o page refresh (like Facebook, clicking messages)
>
> > In my case I want to inject the Books view into the contentPanel w/o
> > the layout, so in the Books controller I added:
>
> > def index
> > respond_to do |format|
> > format.html
> > format.js { render :layout => false }
> > end
> > end
>
> This is almost certainly not what you want. Even on Ajax requests,
> you're requesting HTML, not JavaScript, so you're still dealing with the
> format.html case. Just test request.xhr? to figure out if it was
> responding to an Ajax call.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > Then in my application.js file, I have the following function being
> > triggered:
>
> > jQuery.ajaxSetup({ 'beforeSend': function(xhr)
> > {xhr.setRequestHeader("Accept", "text/javascript")} })
>
> > $.ajax({
> > url: '/notes',
> > success: function(data) {
> > $('.contentCol').html(data);
> > //alert('Load was performed.');
> > }
> > });
>
> > I also added a index.js.erb file, right now it just says:
> > You found me!
>
> The .js says it's JavaScript. That's your cue to realize that you
> shouldn't be doing it that way if you're wanting HTML. (Actually, I
> believe js.erb is usually a sign of a design problem.)
>
>
>
> > What's strange is I want to inject the books view without the layout
> > in the contentPanel div, so it doesn't seem right to be having that in
> > a index.js.erb file.....
>
> Exactly. See above.
>
>
>
> > Does this help? Can't wait to hear your feedback, I've been trying to
> > tackle this one all morning.
>
> > Thanks!
>
> Best,
> --
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> mar...@marnen.org
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