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Jay
Jay

Reputation: 6244

Page doesn't render when get request is issued by jQuery in a rails 3.2 app

In a rails 3.2 app I am having trouble getting a page to render when a get request is issued by jQuery.

In a page:

<%= select_tag 'bah', options_from_collection_for_select(@groups, :id, :name, ""), :class => "get_to_edit" %>

In my js file:

$(".get_to_edit").change(function() {
    var id = $(this).val();
    var url = "/groups/" + id + "/edit"
    $.get(url, id, function(html) {
    });
});

In my controller:

  def edit
    @group = Group.find(params[:id])
  end

In my terminal I'm getting:

  Rendered groups/edit.html.erb within layouts/application (4.8ms)

Yet, nothing is rendered and no error is indicated.

Thanks for your help.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 44

Answers (1)

jeremy.clark
jeremy.clark

Reputation: 852

Maybe you didn't copy/paste it but inside your $.get success callback you aren't doing anything with what is returned by the request.

You need something to this effect (to at least debug the return in the developer console):

$.get(url, id, function(data, textStatus, xhr) {
  console.log(data);
});

I would recommend looking into some of the built in javascript helpers Rails provides. It can do a lot of this for you: http://railscasts.com/episodes/205-unobtrusive-javascript?view=asciicast may be of some help.

Upvotes: 1

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