# AJAX to submit form, but reload the whole page **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [January 5, 2006, 2:47am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ajax-to-submit-form-but-reload-the-whole-page/51647 "2006-01-05T02:47:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ngising](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/e47774/32.png) [@ngising](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ngising)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 2:47am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ajax-to-submit-form-but-reload-the-whole-page/51647/1 "2006-01-05T02:47:09Z")
I’m using ROR 1.0 and the included prototype.js to do some AJAX stuff. I’m using the form\_remote\_tag to submit a login form using AJAX. So, any error/failed login will be displayed using AJAX. But, for successful login, I would want it to reload the wholepage, not just update the . How can I achieve this? ---
**Author:** ![ngising](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/e47774/32.png) [@ngising](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ngising)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 3:18am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ajax-to-submit-form-but-reload-the-whole-page/51647/2 "2006-01-05T03:18:47Z")
On 1/4/06, ngising [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > I’m using ROR 1.0 and the included prototype.js to do some AJAX stuff. > > I’m using the form\_remote\_tag to submit a login form using AJAX. > So, any error/failed login will be displayed using AJAX. But, for > successful login, I would want it to reload the wholepage, not just > update the > > . > > How can I achieve this? change the page with javascript. In the :success callback of your form\_remote\_tag, do something like “location.href = ‘foo’” – rick [http://techno-weenie.net](http://techno-weenie.net) ---
**Author:** ![ngising](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/e47774/32.png) [@ngising](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ngising)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 1:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ajax-to-submit-form-but-reload-the-whole-page/51647/3 "2006-01-05T13:54:19Z")
ok I got it… render :nothing =\> true, :status =\> 401 ---
**Author:** ![ngising](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/e47774/32.png) [@ngising](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ngising)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 1:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ajax-to-submit-form-but-reload-the-whole-page/51647/4 "2006-01-05T13:06:09Z")
> change the page with javascript. In the :success callback of your > form\_remote\_tag, do something like “location.href = ‘foo’” But what about the failure case ? Should I set a response of HTTP to something other than 200 in the controller?so that I can handle it via the failure callback of the Ajax class in the javascript? ---
**Author:** ![ngising](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/e47774/32.png) [@ngising](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ngising)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 2:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ajax-to-submit-form-but-reload-the-whole-page/51647/5 "2006-01-05T14:19:18Z")
Hi Carlos, Thanks for the example…Thats what I was looking for .Just one small thing. Whats the false parameter you pass to window.location.reload(). I actually want to do something like redirecting to the user’s homepage if the password/username is correct. So I suppose something like this should work. document.href=’/matters\_crud/home’ Vivek ---
**Author:** ![ngising](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/e47774/32.png) [@ngising](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ngising)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 2:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ajax-to-submit-form-but-reload-the-whole-page/51647/6 "2006-01-05T14:00:21Z")
Hi Vivek I think the solution you are looking for is what Jamis B. teached me a few weeks ago: … When I’ve needed something like this, I will typically manage things manually. Instead of specifying the :update element, I will handle all of that in a :complete handler by hand. The :complete handler checks the value of a custom header (‘X-What-To-Do’, for example). If the header is ‘error’, then I update the ‘ajax\_div’ element with the request.responseText data. If the header is ‘ok’, then I execute window.location.reload(false). Does that make sense? If not, let me know and I can post a more detailed example. - Jamis … here’s a snippet from the hypothetical RHTML file: \<%= form\_remote\_tag :complete=\>'handleComplete(request)', :url=\>{:controller=\>'matters\_crud', :action =\>:update, :id =\> @matter} %\> \<%= render\_partial 'form' %\> \<%= submit\_tag 'Edit' %\> Then, in your controller, you just do: def update @matter = Matter.find(params[:id]) if @matter.update\_attributes(params[:matter]) headers[‘X-Instruction’] = “ok” render :nothing =\> true else headers[‘X-Instruction’] = “error” render :partial =\> ‘error’ end end - Jamis … Hope that helps Okada. 2006/1/5, Vivek K. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid): ---
**Author:** ![ngising](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/e47774/32.png) [@ngising](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ngising)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2006, 4:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ajax-to-submit-form-but-reload-the-whole-page/51647/7 "2006-01-29T16:00:11Z")
Hi all: I’m doing something similar to this but for an account signup controller. So once the user successfully creates an account, the user is redirected to index.rhtml by window.location.href = “[http://localhost:3000](http://localhost:3000)”; I have a problem where the session hash gets deleted on the first time through the process, but not deleted on subsequent times. I’d like to preserve session[:user\_id] from a successful account creation/login, but it never works the first time. I can see session[:user\_id] = @user.id being set in irb, but after the redirect session[:user\_id] = nil. And as previously stated, this works when I create a new account during the same browser session. Has anyone else had this problem? Boram ---
**Author:** ![ngising](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/e47774/32.png) [@ngising](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ngising)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2006, 1:13am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ajax-to-submit-form-but-reload-the-whole-page/51647/8 "2006-01-30T01:13:29Z")
I would have thought that RJS provides a much cleaner solution. update.rjs: if @matter.valid? page \<\< ‘location.reload(false);’ else page.replace\_html ‘ajax\_div’, :partial =\> ‘error’ end -Jonny. ---
**Author:** ![ngising](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/e47774/32.png) [@ngising](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ngising)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2006, 4:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ajax-to-submit-form-but-reload-the-whole-page/51647/9 "2006-01-29T16:02:53Z")
Clarification: > as previously stated, this works when I create a new account during the > same browser session. should read > as previously stated, this works when I subsequently create new accounts during \> the same browser session.