# Difficulty with Ajax

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/difficulty-with-ajax/102560>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [October 19, 2006, 9:58am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/difficulty-with-ajax/102560 "2006-10-19T09:58:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![darrenevans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/87869e/32.png) [@darrenevans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/darrenevans)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2006, 9:58am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/difficulty-with-ajax/102560/1 "2006-10-19T09:58:57Z")

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I have a difficult using Ajax and wondered whether anyone has the  
expertise to advise me how to proceed?

1. We start at edit - this calls a partial form, which then calls a  
series of partials (which themselves call partials sometimes). If we  
take the case of features, the form goes:

edit - \_form - \_features - \_feature

1. Updates are made in the controller, then there is a re-direct to  
update.rjs (this works it gets there).

2. We have:

page.replace\_html(“features” , :partial =\> ‘features’ , :object =\>  
@features)

page[:features].visual\_effect :highlight, :startcolor =\> “#88ff88”,  
:endcolor =\> “#114411”

I have tried many permutations of the above (and trying to use form),  
but it will not work…

1. Now I would like to return to edit, but show a visual effect on  
features to show that the update has occured

I fear that restructuring may be required, because may have to be in  
edit. Any advice would be really appreaciated

Regards

Darren