Re: Re: Re: how to call rails method from javascript method.

radhames brito
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 11:14:24 -0000

ill give you a link where there is a example done for auto completion with
jquery, but everything you are saying can be done with those technicks

http://rwldesign.com/journals/1-solutions/posts/32-using-jquery-ui-autocomplete-with-rails

it shows how to make ajax call and how to respond with json

On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 2:06 AM, Manish Nautiyal
<lists-fsXkhYbjdPsEEoCn2XhGlw@public.gmane.org>wrote:

> radhames brito wrote:
> > call the action like "/controller_name/action_name.js" this
from the
> > javascript file, if the call is ajax make your controller respond to
js
> > then the file action_name.js is really named action_name.js.rb file
> > there do
> > <%=render :text => user.id%>
> >
> >
> > this is what should happen, you call from the javascript
> > "/controller_name/action_name.js", this goes to the route
and matches
> >
> > map.connect /:controller/:action.:format
> >
> > you see the format at the end ? rails will return the
action_name.js.rb
> > ignoring the rb part as it does with index.html.rb that file will
render
> > the
> > text with the user id, another option is returning a json object, read
a
> > bit
> > about it because i think json is the way to go.
>
>
>
> Hi radhames brito
>
> again diturbing you. Please give me the link for this also.