just use javascirpt and the prototype.js lib directly and not just the rails
helper and you get all you need. if you send the data as JSON-serialized,
than it is easy to handle it at rails serverside, but I do not know whether
prototype.js has specific JSON support.
On 5/24/06, Bradley Mazurek <bradley.mazurek@gmail.com>
wrote:>
> I''m trying to marshal some information I have in Javascript, and
send
> it over an AJAX request to the server, specifically to be stored in a
> model on the server side.
>
> I have some Javascript routines I wrote that gather information about
> the user selection. I see that the link_to_remote has a :before
> option in which I can write Javascript to collect what I need, but
> right now I''m at a bit of a loss as to how to do it.
>
> What I would like to do is present the user with a link. On
> invocation of the link, my Javascript function is invoked, returning
> an object with all the relevent data I need (mostly just numeric
> data). Now I want to send the data to the server.
>
> How do I marshall that data up and send it to the server? Do I have
> to somehow wrap all this in some sort of form containing only hidden
> fields? Am I coming at this from the right direction? What''s the
> right way to do it?
>
> Thanks,
> Brad
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