similar to: lesson learned: careful with :update in link_to_remote

I am playing around with AJAX pagination, but even a hard-coded <%= link_to_remote(''1'', :update => ''listing'', :url => {:action => ''listing'', :page => 1}) %> produces href="#". Does anybody know why? -- fxn

Hello! I have a problem that is quite anoying! In side my Controller it is no problem to use the link_to_remote/remote_function function to produce html stuff to include in my .rhtml file. BUT if I want to do this in another object, for eample if I inside my controller (init_test) want to do like this: my_dropdown->get_html in which I want to perform the link_to_remote/remote_function

Is there a way to set the class of a link in link_to_remote? I tried adding :class => "this_damn_class" after the :url hash and it didn''t work. I went ahead and did it manually using remote_function, i.e. <a class="this_damn_class" href="#" onclick="<%= remote_function ..., :url => {...} %>">My Link</a> -- Posted via

After a fresh installation of an application, some utility scripts run with script/runner quietly aborted right after their start. No error message whatsoever, just a new shell prompt. The reason was an uninstalled dependecy, but that was difficult to determine because the load failure was not reported: % ruby script/runner ''require "foobarbaz"'' % Why

Hello, I''m in troubles trying to use ''link_to_remote'' on Rails 2.1. Having this page: <h4>Editing project</h4> <% form_for(:project, :url => project_path(@project), :html => { :method => :put }) do |f| %> <p> Name <%= f.text_field :name %> Date <%= calendar_date_select :project, :target_date, :time =>

I read in the instructions of Tracks that "upgrading via the rake migrate command is quite a bit more tricky currently with SQLite and SQLite3". Is there any gotcha regarding migrations and SQLite3? -- fxn

Ok, so I am basically trying to use ''link_to_remote'' and pass the value of a javascript variable as an argument. Something like that: link_to_remote "my_link", :update => ''my_div'', :url => { :action => "my_action", :var => ''my_var'' } Basically,

Hi guys, I was wondering if you are able to have a link_to_remote, having an image_tag and the link_to_remote has a mouseover event that updates a div. Does the image_tag need the mouseover event? I currently have: <%= link_to_remote(image_tag(@p_image.public_filename(:thumb)), :update => "big_pic", :onmouseover => {:action => :color_change, :id => @p_image.id})%>

In one of my view , I have an image the user need to click to close a <div>selections</div> added by an Ajax call. if I use : <img src ="/images/icon_closeitem.gif", size="16*16", border="0",alt="Close Selection", title="Close", onclick="<%= remote_function(:url => { :controller => ''property'',

Anyone have a better method for having the onmouseover event (or any other mouse event) instead of onclick when using link_to_remote: This is what I did, but I''d i have to create one for every mouse event, can''t figure out how to call a mouse event via an argument . anyone else run into this problem. Thanks def link_to_remote_mover(name, options = {}, html_options

A view display.rhtml sees no controller state variables set in the corresponding display action. Why? -- fxn

What''s the standard way to prevent race conditions in controllers? Say user has many posts. Post controller has action add_post that receives user id, post controller find()s the user and while he is creating the post entry an administrator deletes that user in a separate session. We cannot assume the database checks foreign key integrity. How do you get that right? -- fxn

I have just some vague and thus probably wrong ideas about when to use model() in controllers, and by now I err on being redundant. I don''t post them here to avoid leaving anything that may be false in the archives. Can anyone explain exactly in which cases one should use model()? -- fxn

I am pondering the possibility of encrypting/decrypting some fields in a SQLite backend on-the-fly. The point of the message is not security, I know that''s broken, but whether there''s a technique that provides on-the-fly save/read filters. Of course the solution would need to work transparently in joins, so user.posts.last.title would do the right thing if title

Hi, I have a link_to_remote and it update a div. After the first click the div is opened with the information. Now I want to be able to close hide the div . How should I do it. Someone at the IRC told me to use toggle. But what I want is a bit odd. I want that it will not do again link_to_remote but toggle. Tnx Kfir

Hi! Wondering if anyone can tell me what''s wrong with my code? I''m trying to use the onChange event of a select list to update multiple divs... Agile Web Development with Rails (p. 403) suggests using ":complete => eval(request.responseText) instead of :update" I''ve attempted the following test code: # in the view <select name="plist",

What is the difference in treatment between an ajax link_to_remote and a form_remote_tag This works great and adds a list item to an ordered list with id=form_results link_to_remote ("Help me please!", :update => ''form_results'', :url => { :action => :search_ajax_test }, :position =>

My application uses only UTF-8. Which is the canonical place to do something global like setting $KCODE? -- fxn

I would like to distribute Iconv for Windows with my Rails application (developing on a Mac, no experience with dlls). I threw iconv.dll and charset.dll under lib without luck. Where would I need to put them (if this is possible at all)? -- fxn PS: The reported error message is in Spanish but translated reads something like "the specified process was not found: Init_iconv".

I have an application that worked fine, but after the recent updates has broken in some calls to render_component from views. I might be missing something but as far as I remember Rails updates is the only thing I''ve done in between. See the log: *** START LOG SNIPPET Start rendering component ({:params=> {:center_id=>10, :id=>25},