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Greetings, I''m new to rails and currently having couple problems about how to add javascript functionality into rails. I have a simple method in the helper and i want to run this code on button click. ------------------------------------------------------------------ module PagesHelper def show_message "simple output" end end ------------------------------------------------------------------ this doesnt work <%= button_to_function "Print", "show_message()" %> this doesnt work too <input o...

Just a quick silly question , are form_helpers actually helper.rb files ? Stuart

If I use render :file=>... in a helper function, Rails dies with a white-screen-of-death (with nothing about it in development.log), but it works in a controller function, and other render functions (like render :text) work in the helper function. # in helper - results in WSOD module PagesHelper def body_render(page) case page.type.name when ''Markaby Template'' render :file=>page.file, :layout=>false # WSOD when ''RedCloth Template'' RedCloth.new(page.body).to_html # works, btw when ''Text''...