[Rails] Re: params function not working

2010-10-15 Thread John Merlino
David Hamilton was right. This was a javascript issue, not a Ruby issue. This worked: var order_value1 = (order_value.indexOf("-") > -1) ? order_value.substring(1) : "-" + order_value; Now regarding what's the intentions here. If you look at the full javascrpt I posted in stackoverflow, you wil

Re: [Rails] Re: params function not working

2010-10-15 Thread Walter Lee Davis
On Oct 15, 2010, at 10:15 AM, dbkbali wrote: From your extensive knowledge would there be any design or performance advantage in refactoring so that the browser requests a pure html partial only? I am guessing here what Marnen's intention was, but I believe he was saying that the browser sh

[Rails] Re: params function not working

2010-10-15 Thread dbkbali
On Oct 15, 3:43 am, radhames brito wrote: > > I mean that you're apparently using it as a repeated pattern.  I think > > it's an antipattern -- something that looks like a good design pattern > > at first, but is in fact to be avoided. > Marnen, As someone who is a relative rails newbie, and wh

Re: [Rails] Re: params function not working

2010-10-14 Thread radhames brito
> No, absolutely not. I am saying that dynamically generating JS by means > of ERb is a design problem. Receiving a partial from an Ajax call is > fine. > > I would really like to see an example of how to pull a partial with ajax without js.erb or js.haml, in a easy way of course, note that if he

[Rails] Re: params function not working

2010-10-14 Thread Marnen Laibow-Koser
pepe wrote in post #950138: >> Anyway, any solution requiring js.erb is, almost by definition, "doing >> it all wrong". js.erb should never be necessary in a well-written >> project: you shouldn't be dynamically generating source code. > > What do you mean by "dynamically generating source code" he

[Rails] Re: params function not working

2010-10-14 Thread pepe
> Anyway, any solution requiring js.erb is, almost by definition, "doing > it all wrong".  js.erb should never be necessary in a well-written > project: you shouldn't be dynamically generating source code. What do you mean by "dynamically generating source code" here? Are you saying that going for

Re: [Rails] Re: params function not working

2010-10-13 Thread radhames brito
> The only interaction I want is from javascript to Rails. While the > params does seem to be grabbing the query string, it is always returning > the "-" in front. > Oh then you are doing it all wrong, you should be usign a getScript and let rails return a js.erb file that uses a partial to redraw

[Rails] Re: params function not working

2010-10-13 Thread John Merlino
Radhames Brito wrote in post #949717: > params is not a function is a hash, hashes are unordered key value pair > in > ruby, the key are symbols. The hash is assembled by rails from the query > string or from serialized data( i think :S) like a form. > > If you want to pass data to java script use