Rails - Sep 2006 - How to move data from a javascript control to the controller object?

I am using a javascript grid control, because I need a competent control to 
make a good GUI.  HTML <table/> just isn''t quite enough in this
case.

I know how to address the cells of the grid control in javascript, but not how 
to move that data from the HTML page to the rails controller.

Can someone please direct me to a tutorial on how to submit this data from the 
browser javascript context to the controller on the server?

Thanks in advance.

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On 9/22/06, David Johnson <johnson_d-j9pdmedNgrk@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
>
> I am using a javascript grid control, because I need a competent control to
> make a good GUI.  HTML <table/> just isn''t quite enough in
this case.
>
> I know how to address the cells of the grid control in javascript, but not
how
> to move that data from the HTML page to the rails controller.
>
> Can someone please direct me to a tutorial on how to submit this data from
the
> browser javascript context to the controller on the server?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
Does the javascript grid control just manipulate the contents of the
DOM?  If so, can you not just POST your revised data to the server
(standard http post).  Or if you needed more frequent data transfer
you could probably have a javascript timer that uses AJAX to send the
data to the server.

Chris

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That was  my first hope.  No, the JS grid does not just maintain a
<table/>.
If it did, then the scaffold generated <% link-to ;action
=>''update'' %> would
have worked out of the box.

I suspect that I will need to use some AJAX type programming techniques.  I 
would certainly not object to getting my feet wet in that direction.

Thanks,
David Johnson

On Friday 22 September 2006 05:32, Chris Roos wrote:
> Does the javascript grid control just manipulate the contents of the
> DOM?  If so, can you not just POST your revised data to the server
> (standard http post).  Or if you needed more frequent data transfer
> you could probably have a javascript timer that uses AJAX to send the
> data to the server.
>
> Chris
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