# Ajax makes me cry **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [January 4, 2006, 3:42am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ajax-makes-me-cry/51602 "2006-01-04T03:42:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jjrussell](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/8baadc/32.png) [@jjrussell](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jjrussell)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2006, 3:42am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ajax-makes-me-cry/51602/1 "2006-01-04T03:42:02Z")
What is the difference in treatment between an ajax link\_to\_remote and a form\_remote\_tag This works great and adds a list item to an ordered list with id=form\_results link\_to\_remote (“Help me please!”, :update =\> ‘form\_results’, :url =\> { :action =\> :search\_ajax\_test }, :position =\> ‘bottom’) with this log message Processing AdminController#search\_ajax\_test (for 192.168.15.100 at 2006-01-03 21:35:43) [POST] Parameters: {“action”=\>“search\_ajax\_test”, “controller”=\>“admin”} Completed in 0.00079 (1272 reqs/sec) | DB: 0.00000 (0%) | 200 OK [[http://192.168.15.50/admin/search\_ajax\_test](http://192.168.15.50/admin/search_ajax_test)] This does absolutely nothing at all form\_remote\_tag ( :udpate =\> ‘form\_results’, :url =\> { :action =\> :search\_ajax\_test }, :position =\> ‘bottom’) …some stuff… end\_form\_tag but still produces this log message Processing AdminController#search\_ajax\_test (for 192.168.15.100 at 2006-01-03 21:35:46) [POST] Parameters: {“commit”=\>“Search”, “action”=\>“search\_ajax\_test”, “controller”=\>“admin”, “query”=\>“asdf”} Completed in 0.00077 (1291 reqs/sec) | DB: 0.00000 (0%) | 200 OK [[http://192.168.15.50/admin/search\_ajax\_test](http://192.168.15.50/admin/search_ajax_test)] Can anyone tell me why the form call does nothing at all? Thanks ---
**Author:** ![jjrussell](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/8baadc/32.png) [@jjrussell](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jjrussell)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2006, 5:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ajax-makes-me-cry/51602/2 "2006-01-04T05:07:39Z")
On 1/4/06, John R. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > What is the difference in treatment between an ajax link\_to\_remote and a > form\_remote\_tag The former generates a tag and the latter generates a which sends post data asynchronously after serializing it in url encoded form.Bothreturn html which is inserted into the html noe whose id is in :update > but still produces this log message > > Thanks It would be better if you post the generated html because the code in your view looks ok.Besides are actually returning any html in your controller action? is there a call to a render ? Whatever is returned by render will be inserted into the ‘form\_results’ node. Vivek – ---
**Author:** ![jjrussell](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/8baadc/32.png) [@jjrussell](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jjrussell)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2006, 5:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ajax-makes-me-cry/51602/3 "2006-01-04T05:25:24Z")
John R. wrote: > form\_remote\_tag ( :udpate =\> ‘form\_results’, > Thanks update, not udpate, lol. ---
**Author:** ![jjrussell](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/8baadc/32.png) [@jjrussell](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jjrussell)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2006, 1:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ajax-makes-me-cry/51602/4 "2006-01-04T13:07:21Z")
Ben H. wrote: > > form\_remote\_tag ( :udpate =\> ‘form\_results’, > > Thanks > > update, not udpate, lol. AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! You are my hero. Thank you so much. ---
**Author:** ![jjrussell](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/8baadc/32.png) [@jjrussell](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jjrussell)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2006, 1:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ajax-makes-me-cry/51602/5 "2006-01-04T13:51:59Z")
John R. wrote: > Ben H. wrote: > > > > form\_remote\_tag ( :udpate =\> ‘form\_results’, > > > Thanks > > > > update, not udpate, lol. > > AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! > > You are my hero. Thank you so much. After calming down a little bit, shouldn’t this have thrown some kind of error? What good is a \*remote call with no update ( or udpate ) assigned. Is there a way to turn on strict checking or something? Anything more helpful than apparent success? Thanks again. ---
**Author:** ![jjrussell](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/8baadc/32.png) [@jjrussell](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jjrussell)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2006, 2:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ajax-makes-me-cry/51602/6 "2006-01-04T14:01:08Z")
For two situations: 1. for .rjs templates, you don’t do :update 2. if you handle the data return somehow yourself, with a :complete =\> ‘…’ JavaScript callback -Thomas Am 04.01.2006 um 13:51 schrieb John R.: ---
**Author:** ![jjrussell](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/8baadc/32.png) [@jjrussell](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jjrussell)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2006, 6:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ajax-makes-me-cry/51602/7 "2006-01-04T18:13:57Z")
On 1/4/06, John R. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Ben H. wrote: > > > > form\_remote\_tag ( :udpate =\> ‘form\_results’, > > > Thanks > > > > update, not udpate, lol. > > AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! ooops…missed that!! this uses the named parameter syntax of ruby and not the hash way of passing params…so it should give an error…or probably ruby ignores it ?