Forum: Ruby on Rails Simpleton routes

Is there some way to keep rails from trying to open a page on a route?
Basically I just want to send an ajax query to:
http://localhost:3000/method/multiply?num1=3&num2=4

while staying on http://localhost:3000/index

Thanks Josh

On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 8:57 PM, Joshua Niehus <jm.niehus@gmail.com> 
wrote:
> Is there some way to keep rails from trying to open a page on a route?
> Basically I just want to send an ajax query to:
> http://localhost:3000/method/multiply?num1=3&num2=4
>
> while staying on http://localhost:3000/index

See:  http://guides.rubyonrails.org/layouts_and_rendering.html

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None of those seem to help, Rails just goes to some blank page with 
either:
a) render :nothing => true
b) head (blah blah...)

I have an ajax request for the server to check something for me but i do
not want to be redirected anywhere when I call it...
not to a blank page or some generated template page, I just want the 
text
response

On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 8:55 PM, Joshua Niehus <jm.niehus@gmail.com> 
wrote:
> None of those seem to help, Rails just goes to some blank page

Actually, your app goes to some blank page. The guide I linked to
earlier explains how to control that :-)

If that's not enough, post your request code and the corresponding
method from your controller.

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Indeed, you are right! I saw what I was doing wrong.

Thank you,
Josh
"In your wisdom, I am humbled"