Rails - Jul 2006 - how to get your controller to close a browser popup window

While editing a record I need to have a link to create a new record in 
another scaffold.

I''ve done this by using a popup window

<%= link_to("Add new Person", "/person/new", :popup =>
[''window_name'',
''width=600,height=600'']) %>

It all works great - but when the save is done I want to kill the popup 
window.

I''ve got the Cancel button to close the window by using this
<a href="javascript:self.close()">Close the window</a>

But how can I get the controller to force a close?

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how about do it in ajax-like way. in the return page you can write javacript
callback function. what do you think?

On 7/24/06, jh100000 <john.henderson@mac.com>
wrote:
>
> While editing a record I need to have a link to create a new record in
> another scaffold.
>
> I''ve done this by using a popup window
>
> <%= link_to("Add new Person", "/person/new", :popup
=> [''window_name'',
> ''width=600,height=600'']) %>
>
> It all works great - but when the save is done I want to kill the popup
> window.
>
> I''ve got the Cancel button to close the window by using this
> <a href="javascript:self.close()">Close the
window</a>
>
> But how can I get the controller to force a close?
>
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zee ho wrote:
> how about do it in ajax-like way. in the return page you can write 
> javacript
> callback function. what do you think?
sounds good... do you know how?  i''ve got some ajax stuff in my project
but I don''t understand it to be honest!

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jh100000 wrote:
> zee ho wrote:
>> how about do it in ajax-like way. in the return page you can write 
>> javacript
>> callback function. what do you think?
> 
> sounds good... do you know how?  i''ve got some ajax stuff in my
project
> but I don''t understand it to be honest!
Here''s an example.

Sorry for the dopey names, I just copied this out of some stuff I was 
testing the other day:

In my rhtml file, I had

<%=link_to_remote "Blurt", :url => { :action =>
"blurt"}%>
<br />
<%=link_to_remote "Flurb", :url => { :action =>
"flurb"}%>
<br /><br />

In my controller, I had

def blurt
  render :update do |page|
    page << ''mywindow =
window.open("http://url.for.source.com", "A
Window")''
  end
end

def flurb
  render :update do |page|
    page << ''mywindow.close()''
  end
end

--Al Evans

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Cheers Al,

that''s neat - and nearly what I need - but not quite...

So now I''ve got a link_to_remote on view X which pops up a new window 
with a view of controller Y.

What i really need is a "closeme" function.

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