Rails - Oct 2008 - trying not to duplicate actions for ajax

I''ve got a controller which displays a list of documents in the index 
action. There are action links for each document, ''view'' and
''edit'' are
normal links that go to the pages, but ''delete'' and
''publish'' are ajax
links that replace content in the actions div.

This works perfectly, however I am now trying to implement the
''view''
page, and I''m having trouble re-using those ajax actions.

Above the document details in the ''view'' page there should be
a menu
with ''edit'', ''delete'' and
''publish''. The problem is that the update divs
are not the same for the index and view pages so the ajax actions don''t
update anything visible on the ''view'' page.

i''m not sure if i have explained this very well, so please ask for more
information if necessary.

Grateful someone has some ideas about re-using the ajax actions in a 
different view with different elements.

Thanks

Matt

--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
"Ruby on Rails: Talk" group.
To post to this group, send email to
rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to
rubyonrails-talk+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org
For more options, visit this group at
http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en
-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

Let me try and clarify a little bit.

the index action loads a partial called ''actions'' which has
the two
normal and two ajax links. On completion of processing the ajax links, 
the delete link removes the <tr> for that document and the publish 
re-renders the ''actions'' partial.

the view action should render a different partial (ie
''view_actions'')
with different update params to the ajax links.

The problem is that when run from the view action, I want the delete 
action to print a message rather than remove the row, and I want the 
publish action to render the view_actions rather than actions.

I can see a way round this by duplicating the delete and publish actions 
in the controller and modify them slightly but that isn''t DRY and 
doesn''t feel like the right way to do it.

Any tips most welcome :)

Thanks

Matt

--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
"Ruby on Rails: Talk" group.
To post to this group, send email to
rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to
rubyonrails-talk+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org
For more options, visit this group at
http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en
-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---