Rails - Jul 2006 - How do I update a div''s content in the controller?

Without using an RJS, is there a call I can do in the controller?  All I 
want to do is this statement, but in the controller:

new Effect.toggle(''notifier_nav'',''appear'',
{duration:12.0});

Thanks,
Ben Lisbakken

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Hi Ben,

please try the following snip from the rails api:

Rendering inline JavaScriptGenerator page updates

In addition to rendering JavaScriptGenerator page updates with Ajax in RJS
templates (see
ActionView::Base<http://api.rubyonrails.com/classes/ActionView/Base.html>for
details), you can also pass the
:update parameter to render, along with a block, to render page updates
inline.

  render :update do |page|
    page.replace_html  ''user_list'', :partial =>
''user'', :collection => @users
    page.visual_effect :highlight, ''user_list''
  end

And for your case:

page << new Effect...your js

Haven''t tried it myself...

Cheers,
Jan



On 7/27/06, Ben Lisbakken <lisbakke@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Without using an RJS, is there a call I can do in the controller?  All I
> want to do is this statement, but in the controller:
>
> new
Effect.toggle(''notifier_nav'',''appear'',
{duration:12.0});
>
> Thanks,
> Ben Lisbakken
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Jan Prill wrote:
> Hi Ben,
> 
> please try the following snip from the rails api:
> 
> Rendering inline JavaScriptGenerator page updates
> 
> In addition to rendering JavaScriptGenerator page updates with Ajax in 
> RJS
> templates (see 
>
ActionView::Base<http://api.rubyonrails.com/classes/ActionView/Base.html>for
> details), you can also pass the
> :update parameter to render, along with a block, to render page updates
> inline.
> 
>   render :update do |page|
>     page.replace_html  ''user_list'', :partial =>
''user'', :collection =>
> @users
>     page.visual_effect :highlight, ''user_list''
>   end
> 
> And for your case:
> 
> page << new Effect...your js
> 
> Haven''t tried it myself...
> 
> Cheers,
> Jan
Good stuff, thanks.  I ended up just making a helper in 
application_helper.rb that returned the content of the javascript.  A 
different technique, but achieved the same thing.

Thanks Jan,
Ben Lisbakken

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On 2006-07-27 15:45:05 -0400, Ben Lisbakken 
<lisbakke@gmail.com> said:
> Without using an RJS
Is there a reason that inline RJS would not work?

render :update do |page|
  page[''notifier_nav''].toggle_appear
end

This looks like it would work fine. Would have to figure out the 
duration thing.
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