On Dec 13, 2011, at 2:44 PM, Frederick Cheung wrote: > > On 13 Dec 2011, at 21:07, Craig White <craig.wh...@ttiltd.com> wrote: > >> 1 down - 1 to go... can anyone toss me a bone here? >> >> On Dec 13, 2011, at 10:25 AM, Craig White wrote: >> >>> Rails 3.1.x >>> >>> 2 questions... Perhaps I am doing this too much in the raw of jquery but I >>> can't seem to find any other way to do these things >>> >>> 1 - drag_drop.js has... >>> >>> $.post( "groups/add_member/", { "add": ui.draggable.text() } ); >>> which is almost everything I want but I want to add @group.id to the URL. >>> How can I get the value of @group.id into the jquery string? >> ---- >> can't figure out how to get @group.id from rails into the jquery string > > These days I usually either stash things like that in the dom as data- > attributes or stick a js snippet in the page that sets a global javascript > variable to whatever the scripts that run on the page need to refer to ---- the next time I read about how easy it is to use jquery I'm going to gag ;-)
I finally got it... took a surprising long time to figure this one out $.post( "groups/add_member/", { "add": ui.draggable.text(), "id": ui.draggable.attr("data-add") }, function(data) { and obviously added the 'data-add' tag to the <li> Thanks Leonardo & of course, Fred Craig -- 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-talk@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.