Ajax and redirect

Rails
1

Here is my use case

I have a search model with two actions search_set and search_show.

1 - A user loads the home page which contains a search_form, rendered
via a partial (search_form).

2 - User does a search, and the request goes to search_set, the search
is saved and a redirect happens to search_show page which again
renders the search_form with the saved search preferences. This search
form is different than the one if step1, because it’s a remote form
being submitted to the same action (search set)

3 - Now the user does another search, and the search form is submitted
via ajax to the search_set action. The search is saved and executed
and now I need to present the result via rjs templates (corresponding
to search_show). I am told that if the request is xhr then I can’t
redirect to the search_show action? Is that right? If yes, how do I
handle this?

Thanks

2

Hi,

What you cannot do is mixing Ajax requests with full URL page requests

But what you can do is something like:

format.js {
render :action=> search_show, :layout=>false
}

Your search_show view will be rendered without any application layout
provided you’re using the same content @variables…

Jan

3

With my search forms, I use two partials, one for the controls and one
for the result and then just use a page update to redisplay both
parts.

If you really want a redirect

On Jun 6, 11:25 am, javinto [email protected] wrote:

format.js {
render :action=> search_show, :layout=>false
}

javinto,
Interesting, something I have not tried. Is this an ajax update
response, in which case, the part of the dom being updated would
presumably need to be the part generated by the yield in the layout?

badnaam
I use ajax search forms and handle the update as two partials, one for
the controls and one for the results, using
render :update

Tonypm

4

to search_show). I am told that if the request is xhr then I can’t
redirect to the search_show action? Is that right? If yes, how do I
handle this?

Hi If what I understood from your post is correct, you can do from

controller like

render :update do |page|
page.redirect_to search_show_url
end

Sijo