Queue 3 or more RJS actions

Rails
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My .rjs file
page.visual_effect :BlindUp, “people”, :queue => ‘front’ #first
action
page.replace_html “people”, :partial => ‘person/person_compressed’,
:collection => @search_results , :queue => ‘end’ #second action, after
first is done
page.visual_effect :BlindDown, “people” , :queue => ‘end’ #third
action, after second is done

I want it to BlindUp, replace the div, and then BlindDown the div with
its new content. Instead it BlindsUp first and then BlindsDown/replaces
the div pretty much at the same time. I need three things to happen in
order and ‘front’ and ‘end’ only let me set the order for two things.

My reference so far has been
http://blog.railsdevelopment.com/pages/effect/queue/
It talks about using :scope with :queue. I tried changing all the
:queue in the above example to :queue => {:scope=> ‘myscope’}
hoping that this would set up my queue but that did not appear to work.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Matthew M.
blog.mattmargolis.net

2

Matthew,

You can pass the replace html to beforeStart (of blinddown), this will
perform the visual effect before the effect is executed.

–
Abdur-Rahman A.
http://blog.railsdevelopment.com/

3

Abdur-Rahman A. wrote:

Matthew,

You can pass the replace html to beforeStart (of blinddown), this will
perform the visual effect before the effect is executed.

What is the syntax I would use for beforeStart?
If I do

page.visual_effect :BlindDown, “people” , :queue => ‘end’, {:beforeStart
=> page.replace_html “people”, :partial=>‘mypartial’}

then I get parse errors on the rjs file.
http://rails.techno-weenie.net/question/2006/5/3/how_to_use_ajax_callbacks_in_rjs_templates
shows using Javascript in beforeStart. Can I use the rjs methods like
replace_html too?

Thank you,
Matthew M.
blog.mattmargolis.net