RJS & increment variable - this is an interesting one

Rails
1

Hi:

I have a small piece of code I’m injecting into a page using a partial
and RJS. Trick is, the code I’m injecting is a form field, and the id
needs to have a digit at the end of it so I can grab it when I submit
the form. I can’t seem to get the partial to render with the variable
incremented.

My RJS:

page.insert_html :bottom, ‘new_task’, :partial => ‘add_new’
page.visual_effect :highlight, ‘new_task’

My partial:

NOTE: here’s where it gets interesting - see the first line? I’m trying
here to increment the instance variable @task. Note that this @task is
set to 3 when the page itself (page = multiple) loads.

<% @task = @task.succ %>

Task <%= @task %>:
 <%= text_field_tag("task#{@task}", nil, {}) %>

Controller method for the page (simple):

def multiple
@task = 3
end

Controller method for the partial taks (“add_new”)

NOTE: I’ve currently tried it as empty. When I have it as empty the
variable never increments in the partial. When I have only one line in
this method (@task = @task.succ), I get an error: “NoMethodError in
Goals#add_new”; When just set the instance variable (@task = 4), it
comes through no problem, but it still doesn’t increment when the
partial is rendered.

def add_new

end

The key here is that this partial should be able to be injected into the
form infintely, which is essentially what I want, but I can’t get it to
increment correctly.

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

Mike

2

I use the same idea for enabling users to add infinite number of
attachments and other things. However, I don’t use a variable and
increment, instead I use the time as follows:

partial:
<% index = Time.now.tv_sec %>

On Mar 11, 6:40 pm, Mike D. [email protected]

3

Hi Mike,

when the action “add_new” of controller “Goals” is called, a new
instance of Goals controller is created and hence previous value of
@task is no more accessible in add_new.
Hence when you have something like this "@task = @task.succ " in your
add_new method, it will give error, since @task is not defined and you
are trying to invoke nil.succ.

You need to persist @task across requests, 1 way is to use sessions.
Another approach could be the one mentioned by Ahmed.

Regards
Jatinder