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Hello! In rails 3.1 app I have a controller UsersController with ''show'' action. show.html.erb contains: <% content_for(:head) do %> <%= javascript_include_tag ''myscript'' %> <% end %> <p>Hello @user.name</p> And I have this in myscript.js.erb $jQuery(document).ready(function() { alert(<%= @user.name %>); }); @user is being

I have 2 pages that have almost the same content except for stuff in the middle. I''d basically like to have a sub-layout that wraps the content that is different - exactly the way a normal layout file would. How can I call into a layout inside of erb? I''d like to do something like this: <%= render :sub-layout => "reusable-wrapper" %>

I''m using [acts_as_commentable_with_threading](http://github.com/elight/acts_as_commentable_with_threading/), and it worked fine until I tried to overwrite the to_json function to include more details about the associated user. Here''s part of the comment class (which was originally defined in the plugin, but I moved it to the models folder, a move which seems not to affect the

Hi, i have a "place" model with 2 columns (id, name). I''m calling an external api which gives me data to create a new place object. I would like to add the address from the external place to the place object and render it as a json result, without storing it in the database. i don''t get any errors, but the address never shows up within the json output. i''ve

I''m trying to write a helper method similar to attr_accessible but instead it will be used to whitelist which attributes are available for serialization (attr_serializable). My first attempt at this was to override serialized_hash and modify the :only option to include nothing but serializable attributes. I''m facing a problem when nested models are ''included''

Hi all, I''m working on a Backbone.js single page app with Rails 3.1, and in an attempt to save on HTTP requests, I want to embed initial data set in a HTML document that is sent back to the browser after successful login. I was thinking I can simply convert my ruby object to JSON, then HTML escape resulting string of JSON, and then use that as a value for JavaScript variable. Something

[rails 3.2.2] I perform an ajax call : ... $.ajax url: " /backoffice/expenses/rate" type: "GET" dataType: "json" data: project_id: $(''#project_id'').val() code: $(this).val() success: (result) -> alert result $(''#expense_price'').val(result) in

Hi All I''m trying to build an application which requires to scrap information from a webpage. On trying to perform the action, I get an error while trying to convert the html data to JSON. Has anyone experienced this before and if so can you please tell me how to solve this problem ? Please see below for code snippet and error log. Thanks in advance Anush require

Hi I have an app which posts an ajax request with with text area content, but when it does post it it gets all the newlines and multiple spaces removed (need to use multiple spacing for use with markdown code snippets) I''ve created a sample app which you can see here http://test.42horizons.com/test, View it in IE 8 and both requests remove line spaces and new lines, view it in firefox

I want a method in app/controllers/application.rb that can prepend/append text to whatever template gets rendered. Of course I can''t call render twice w/o getting a double render error, so is this possible? I want to redirect after a delay using a meta refresh. Here''s what I''ve got: app/controllers/application_controller.rb: def redirect_after_delay (url, delay)

Could someone please demonstrate the code to send both json (or xml) AND javascript (to be executed) in a single Ajax request? Is this even possible? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- 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

Hi Folks, I use render :js => "alert(''Test !'')" in my modele, but instead of having the alert displayed, the browser try to donload a file containing this string : <<render :js => "alert(''Test !'')">>. Do you know why I the browser behaves such a way ? Regards -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received

Having problems rendering javascript in erb file. Thanks for suggestions. //layout erb file (function() { ... var widget_properties = {}; <%= content_for?(:extend_widget) ? "widget_properties = " + yield(:extend_widget) : '''' %> ... })(); //view erb file <% content_for :extend_widget do %> extend = { _init: function() {

When I write var x = "<%= select_tag(:activity_group, options_for_select(activity_grp),{:include_blank => ''Create New Group'', :style => ''width: 100px''}) %>"; where <% activity_grp = @activity_group.map { |ag| [ag.name, ag.id] } %> However, I get error (missing ; before statement) in Firebug because var x = "<select

Hello, I''m working on a Rails app which has a REST API. I manage two formats JSON and XML. Very often to simplify the use if the API, I''m making includes. But when you add params to to_json and to_xml like :only, :except, it''s not only applied on the root object but on all the objects included. Do you know libs or methods to answer to these different problems: * Tell

Im not sure which group to post in, so i thought i''d try both. Any Rails peeps that use jQuery? Im having a problem. I have followed Ryan Bates Screencast about inserting a partial with jQuery and currently have it working in my app. What i really would like is to keep all my code in my application.js file vs a bunch of files all over my view folders. This is what i have in my

Hi guys, I have a simple controller def gmap @intentsearches = Intentsearch.all logger.info @intentsearches respond_to do |format| format.html {render :gmap} format.xml {render :xml => @intentsearches } format.json { render :json => @intentsearches } end end and want a json response, but i do get the following error Completed 500 Internal

Hey all, I know that this: Called id for nil, which would mistakenly be 4 -- if you really wanted the id of nil, use object_id means that I have an instance variable that has not been initialized. However, I''m a little confused as to what to do in a signup form for form_for: <% content_for :login do %> <% form_for @user, :url => { :action => "login" } do

Hi I have to create a json date like {"startDate":"\/Date(1291145744713-0700)\/","endDate":"\/Date(1293824144713-0700)\/"} This is just an example. My case startdate = Time.now-2.day enddate = Time.now I dont know how to convert this to the above format. Please help Thanks -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You

Hey there I was scratching my head over why my application breaks when I run on a local server but works on my remote server. It turns out that my local server is Rails 2.0.2 and my remote server is 1.2.3 and I expect the tag "attributes" to be passed with a json stream, before parsing. Unfortunately, this was dropped in 2.0.2. Is there any documentation on this? Any way to get it back?