# Problem popup

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-popup/154200>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [November 26, 2008, 11:11am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-popup/154200 "2008-11-26T11:11:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![maite](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@maite](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/maite)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 11:11am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-popup/154200/1 "2008-11-26T11:11:55Z")

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hello list.

I use popup in my project

\<%= link\_to image\_tag("edit.png"), edit\_mercado\_path(mercado), :popup =\>['subjects', 'width=500,height=500,toolbar=no,titlebar=no,status=no,left=500,top=300, scrollbars=yes']%\>

I want that update method finish this new window (popup) close and  
refresh the father window

now I use javascript to close window

 \<%= submit\_tag "Aceptar" :onclick=\>"window.close();" %\>

but I want user render :update but this don´t run

I put this

def update  
…  
render :update do |page|  
page \<\< opener.$(‘contenerabajo’)  
page \<\< eval(window.close()😉

end  
end

any idea???  
thanks for all