Ok so I have been playing with extjs and rails for about a week and I
feel I have made good progress. But I have gotten stuck. I have an
extjs form that has a button that submits data to my login method. I
want to have the controller update just a div in my page without
reloading or redirecting the page. This works great if I use just an
normal ruby on rails link_to. However, when I use a extjs button and
set the handler to call the controller the controller cannot render a
partial. It just hangs.
So here is my exmple. I have a very simple forum:
[CODE] var simple = new Ext.FormPanel({
labelWidth: 75, // label settings here cascade unless
overridden
url:‘save-form.php’,
frame:true,
title: ‘Sign In’,
bodyStyle:‘padding:5px 5px 0’,
width: 350,
defaults: {width: 230},
defaultType: ‘textfield’,
items: [{
fieldLabel: 'Screen Name',
name: 'screen_name',
allowBlank:false
},{
fieldLabel: 'Password',
name: 'password'
}
],
buttons: [{
text: 'Login',
type: 'submit',
handler: function(){
simple.form.submit({url: '/users/login?format_ext_json',
waitMsg: ‘Authenticating…’});}
},{
text: ‘Cancel’
}]
});[/CODE]
Then I have a users controller and inside that controller I have a
method:
[CODE]
def login
logger.info(“test”)
@title = “Log in to pinktomato”
if request.get?
@user = User.new(:remember_me => remember_me_string)
elsif param_posted?(:screen_name)
@user = User.new()
@user.screen_name = params[:screen_name]
@user.password = params[:password]
user = User.find_by_screen_name_and_password
(@user.screen_name,@user.password)
if user
logger.info(“found user”)
user.login!(session)
@user.remember_me? ? user.remember!(cookies) : user.forget!
(cookies)
flash[:notice] = “User #{user.screen_name} logged in!”
render :text => “I HOPE THIS SHOWS”
else
# Don't show the password in the view
@user.clear_password!
flash[:notice] = "Invalid screen name/password combination"
end
end
end[/CODE]The “render :text” never renders… It actually just hangs
on the authenticating when u click the login button. What I am
assuming is that possibly the controller has lost reference to the div
it should update. Is this possile. Since when I use a regular link_to
command in rails the login method works fine. Only when called from
the extjs form.
I have tried lost of stuff so far even
[CODE] respond_to do |format|
format.ext_json { render(:update) {|page| page.replace_html
“home” ,:partial=>“loggedIn”) } }
end[/CODE]
I hope my problem makes sense. I cannot find reference to this
anywhere. I downloaded the extjs scaffold and I took at look at the
generated code because it does create a create method for the
scaffold. However this pre generated scaffold just redirects the user.
I don’t want the page to referesh. Is this my only choice?
[CODE] def create
@site = Site.new(params[:site])
respond_to do |format|
if @site.save
flash[:notice] = 'Site was successfully created.'
format.ext_json { render(:update) {|page| page.redirect_to
sites_path } }
else
format.ext_json { render :json => @site.to_ext_json(:success
=> false) }
end
end
end[/CODE]Please any help would be appreciated…
Vince