Look at this:
http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/PrototypeHelper/JavaScriptGenerator/GeneratorMethods.html
AJAX is the way to go in my opinion and you can always fall back to
HTML. Also take a look at the casts about AJAX on railscasts.com,
which pretty much got me started.
On 11 aug, 13:46, Pete Moran
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wrote:> Hello Folks,
>
> And thanks to everyone so far who has answered my newbie questions :)
>
> I just want a little advice, I''m starting tinkering with ruby to
show
> certain businesses locations which reside in a city.
>
> Firstly the user chooses a country, from that country I can find all the
> cities in that country. Then the chooses a city, and from the user
> chooses a company and from that we can display all the locations for
> that business in the city. I have all the data working, I completely
> understand how the models should look and the relationships within them,
> but I just would like some opinions on how it should fir together.
>
> So I have Countries, Cities, Businesses, Locations
>
> The easiest way is to have one ''show'' view for countries
- which lists
> all countries. (say the route is /Countries/show/)
> The you could click a country and it would have a new view for all the
> cities ( route is Countries/US/Show).
> So then we have a view which shows all the businesses in that city lets
> (route is Countries/US/MIA/Show), you then select company AL
> And finally you have a view which shows the locations of that business
> for the chosen company in the city (route is /Countries/US/MIA/AL/Show).
>
> Which is all well and good - does the job but it goes through 4 seperate
> pages, what would be much nicer is to have one single view, which would
> load each subsection as the data became available? does that make sense
> ? so instead of 4 views you would have one which each time it got the
> additional data it would load a new section. So questions are.
>
> 1) Is this feasible (I think it must be).
> 2) How do you route it so that it effectively uses the same top level
> ''view''
> 3) I''m assuming it would use partials, and if so would these need
to be
> called in a if statement or is there a more elegant way of doing it?
> 4) This also sounds quite a nice exercise to do in a AJAX way - can
> anyone give me any pointers on where to look at AJAX examples for ruby?
>
> Again thanks for the help and sorry if my newbie questions have been
> asked before!
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