In place editor and rjs

Rails
1

Hi all,

I’ve had a read thru similar topics on the list but am still
confused…

I want an in place editor to call an action that does some rjs, not
just return a text string.

Normally the action would do something like:

def edit
# model.update(params[:value]
render :text => params[:value]
end

But I want to do more stuff:

def edit
# model.update(params[:value]
render :action => ‘edit.rjs’
end

What options do I need to use in the view to evaluate the javascript
returned? At the moment the javascript is just being displayed in the
field as a string.

I have hacked together the following, but is there a cleaner ‘more
rails’ way to do this?

<%= in_place_editor @model.id, :url => {:action => ‘edit’, :id =>
@model.id},
:complete => “function(transport, element){
// Id rather use rjs to do my javascript than have it in the view
like this.
$
(‘another_element_that_i_want_to_update’).update(transport.responseText);
}” %>

Any advice greatly appreciated,

Barry.

2

I’d been using an old version of the helper. I downloaded the current
version of in_place_editor_field plugin and passed the option:

<%= in_place_editor_field …, …, :script => true %>

Works fine now. Cheers.