Rails - Apr 2006 - Multiple view types for a single action?

Is it possible to have more than one kind of view for a specific action, 
for example an .rhtml and a .rjs file to handle the view for the same 
action?

I suspect not, but this makes me wonder if there a way to call the .rjs 
file from within the .rhtml so the statements within it get executed?

Thanks,
Andy

> Is it possible to have more than one kind of view for a specific action,
> for example an .rhtml and a .rjs file to handle the view for the same
> action?
>
> I suspect not, but this makes me wonder if there a way to call the .rjs
> file from within the .rhtml so the statements within it get executed?
>
http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionController/MimeResponds/InstanceMethods.html#M000062

Regards,
Rimantas
--
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Thank you Rimantas, I am sorry but should have clarified that I wanted 
to be able to use the two views together for the single action, the page 
you pointed me to answers the question the way I posted it but I should 
have elaborated, apologies!

Basically, I want my .rhtml view file to be the display portion for the 
given action but I also want it to be able to trigger the javascrpt 
calls from a corresponding .rjs file, and this I am not quite sure how 
to accomplish.

A quick of summary of what I want to accomplish is having do_stuff.rhtml 
display the given page for an action ( do_stuff ) but also have 
do_stuff.rjs contain javascript commands to show and hide different 
elements on the page, I am not sure how to get to the .rjs file from the 
.rhtml file.

Thanks!
Andy


Rimantas Liubertas wrote:
>> Is it possible to have more than one kind of view for a specific
action,
>> for example an .rhtml and a .rjs file to handle the view for the same
>> action?
>>
>> I suspect not, but this makes me wonder if there a way to call the .rjs
>> file from within the .rhtml so the statements within it get executed?
>>
> 
>
http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionController/MimeResponds/InstanceMethods.html#M000062
> 
> Regards,
> Rimantas
> --
> http://rimantas.com/

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<...>
> A quick of summary of what I want to accomplish is having do_stuff.rhtml
> display the given page for an action ( do_stuff ) but also have
> do_stuff.rjs contain javascript commands to show and hide different
> elements on the page, I am not sure how to get to the .rjs file from the
> .rhtml file.
You may check render :update
http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionController/Base.html#M000206
(search for
"Rendering inline JavaScriptGenerator page updates")
and
http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/PrototypeHelper/JavaScriptGenerator/GeneratorMethods.html

These shoul let you to achieve the effect you want. If you want to use
ready made .rjs
then I have no answer yet, and it would be interesting to find out if
there is a  way to do it.


Regards,
Rimantas
--
http://rimantas.com/

Thats terrific, if I could get that to work it would certainly be an 
acceptable solution, but I get errors ->

I have the following div containers in my .rhtml page:

<div id="stuff1_div" style="display:none">
</div>

<div id="stuff2_div" style="display:none">
</div>


and added this inline javascript using the api as an example:

<%   render :update do |page|
     page[''stuff1_div''].show
     page[''stuff2_div''].show
   end
%>

which is giving me these errors:

try { $(''stuff1_div'').show();
$(''stuff2_div'').show(); } catch (e) {
alert(''RJS error ..., etc

Any idea what I did wrong, I know
page[''div_id_here''].hide/show works
from inside an .rjs template so am confused why it is not working here.

Thanks again!
Andy



Rimantas Liubertas wrote:
> <...>
>> A quick of summary of what I want to accomplish is having
do_stuff.rhtml
>> display the given page for an action ( do_stuff ) but also have
>> do_stuff.rjs contain javascript commands to show and hide different
>> elements on the page, I am not sure how to get to the .rjs file from
the
>> .rhtml file.
> 
> You may check render :update
> http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionController/Base.html#M000206
> (search for
> "Rendering inline JavaScriptGenerator page updates")
> and
>
http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/PrototypeHelper/JavaScriptGenerator/GeneratorMethods.html
> 
> These shoul let you to achieve the effect you want. If you want to use
> ready made .rjs
> then I have no answer yet, and it would be interesting to find out if
> there is a  way to do it.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Rimantas
> --
> http://rimantas.com/

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<...>
> and added this inline javascript using the api as an example:
>
> <%>    render :update do |page|
>      page[''stuff1_div''].show
>      page[''stuff2_div''].show
>    end
> %>
>
> which is giving me these errors:
>
> try { $(''stuff1_div'').show();
$(''stuff2_div'').show(); } catch (e) {
> alert(''RJS error ..., etc
>
> Any idea what I did wrong, I know
page[''div_id_here''].hide/show works
> from inside an .rjs template so am confused why it is not working here.
You can use render :update in _controller''s action_ which responds to
AJAX request.

If you want to have this update code in your normal _view_ use
update_page_tag, like this:

<%= update_page_tag do |page|
          page[''stuff1_div''].show
          page[''stuff2_div''].show
       end
%>


Regards,
Rimantas
--
http://rimantas.com/

Thats awesome, exactly what I needed to know, thank you very much for 
taking the time to illustrate this stuff! :)

-Andy


Rimantas Liubertas wrote:
> <...>
>>
>> try { $(''stuff1_div'').show();
$(''stuff2_div'').show(); } catch (e) {
>> alert(''RJS error ..., etc
>>
>> Any idea what I did wrong, I know
page[''div_id_here''].hide/show works
>> from inside an .rjs template so am confused why it is not working here.
> 
> You can use render :update in _controller''s action_ which responds
to
> AJAX request.
> 
> If you want to have this update code in your normal _view_ use
> update_page_tag, like this:
> 
> <%= update_page_tag do |page|
>           page[''stuff1_div''].show
>           page[''stuff2_div''].show
>        end
> %>
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Rimantas
> --
> http://rimantas.com/

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