# How to refresh a parent page **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [March 16, 2010, 8:12am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-refresh-a-parent-page/185214 "2010-03-16T08:12:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sameera](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b487fb/32.png) [@sameera](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sameera)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 8:12am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-refresh-a-parent-page/185214/1 "2010-03-16T08:12:07Z")
Hi Guys, I have the fllowing requirement, I have a model called Task to display user tasks 1 . Link to add a new task (in the tasks index page) 2 . when a user click the link, ‘tasks/new’ action will open up inside a popup 3 . when the user save the new task, I want to close ‘new task’ popup and refresh the parent page ‘tasks/index’ so that new task will display I guess, i will have to execute a page reload java script at the end of ‘tasks/create’ action. But i’m not sure how to. can anyone help me out to make this happen, thanks in advance cheers, sameera ---
**Author:** ![sameera](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b487fb/32.png) [@sameera](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sameera)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 2:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-refresh-a-parent-page/185214/2 "2010-03-16T14:55:06Z")
Sameera G. wrote: > Hi Guys, > > I have the fllowing requirement, > > I have a model called Task to display user tasks > > 1 . Link to add a new task (in the tasks index page) > 2 . when a user click the link, ‘tasks/new’ action will open up inside a > popup What sort of popup? Are you opening a new browser window or is this an AJAX style popup? > 3 . when the user save the new task, I want to close ‘new task’ popup > and refresh the > parent page ‘tasks/index’ so that new task will display > > I guess, i will have to execute a page reload java script at the end of > ‘tasks/create’ action. But i’m not sure how to. This depends on how you plan to implement your popup. If you use a separate browser window then you could use JavaScript to update your “parent” window. Since you’d be using JavaScript already you might instead use an AJAX style popup and have only a single browser window to deal with. You could perform all your updating with Prototype or jQuery by manipulating the DOM directly. The point is that there’s a few different options and it depends on which one you choose.