# Question about link\_to\_remote

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/question-about-link-to-remote/111459>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [August 7, 2007, 3:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/question-about-link-to-remote/111459 "2007-08-07T15:57:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![huang\_zhimin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/54ee81/32.png) [@huang\_zhimin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/huang_zhimin)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2007, 3:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/question-about-link-to-remote/111459/1 "2007-08-07T15:57:08Z")

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I want to use Ajax.Updater to dynamically update a div with an  
option { insertion:Insertion.Bottom }, but I can’t find the equivalent  
in  
link\_to\_remote.

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**Author:** ![huang\_zhimin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/54ee81/32.png) [@huang\_zhimin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/huang_zhimin)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2007, 10:32am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/question-about-link-to-remote/111459/2 "2007-08-08T10:32:56Z")

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huang zhimin wrote:

> I want to use Ajax.Updater to dynamically update a div with an  
> option { insertion:Insertion.Bottom }, but I can’t find the equivalent  
> in  
> link\_to\_remote.

you do it in the controller / rjs on the server side ( controller )  
rather than in the rhtml ;

[http://api.rubyonrails.com/classes/ActionView/Helpers/PrototypeHelper/JavaScriptGenerator/GeneratorMethods.html](http://api.rubyonrails.com/classes/ActionView/Helpers/PrototypeHelper/JavaScriptGenerator/GeneratorMethods.html)

hth

shai