Rails - Apr 2006 - Link helpers and AJAX callbacks

Hi,
So after lots of efforts to understand Ruby and Rails, I am finally 
scratching the surface of AJAX in Rails. So here goes another problem.

I am able to sucessfully call server side method using AJAX. Now I need 
to fill this function with something useful to return back. Now I see 
that only inbuilt function I can play with is "render_text". This
means
it simply doesn''t recognise any helper function I call from Helper 
modules. Like for example I need to call "link_to" tag Helper
function.
The Ruby compiler (or interpreter or whatever you call it!) just fails 
to recognise such methods.

Now is there a way to call them in my server side method during an AJAX 
callback?


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Dipesh Batheja wrote:
> Hi,
> So after lots of efforts to understand Ruby and Rails, I am finally 
> scratching the surface of AJAX in Rails. So here goes another problem.
> 
> I am able to sucessfully call server side method using AJAX. Now I need 
> to fill this function with something useful to return back. Now I see 
> that only inbuilt function I can play with is "render_text". This
means
> it simply doesn''t recognise any helper function I call from Helper
> modules. Like for example I need to call "link_to" tag Helper
function.
> The Ruby compiler (or interpreter or whatever you call it!) just fails 
> to recognise such methods.
> 
> Now is there a way to call them in my server side method during an AJAX 
> callback?
I don''t know if this will help, but...

Have you looked at:

http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/60487

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