Restful Rails with Ajax

Rails
1

What is the proper way to handle Ajax requests restfully?

def index
@user = User.all
respond_to do |format|
format.html # Normal requests
format.js # Should I use this?
format.rjs # Something like this?
end
end

I am unsure how to accomplish this.

Do I need something like this possibly?

if request.xhr?
#Do something
else
respond_to do |format|
#Normal stuff
end
end

What is the proper thing to do?

2

You had it about right:

/app/controllers/users_controller.rb

def index
@user = User.all
respond_to do |format|
format.html # Normal requests
format.js # XHR Requests
end
end

/app/views/users/index.js.rjs

page[‘some_element’].hide