Render :update working incorrectly

Rails
1

I have the following code

render :update do |page|
page.alert(‘Hey there’)
end

Why is it taking me to a blank page with the following text at the top:

alert(“Hey there”);

This text is in 

 tags as well. Its kinda weird. Thats what I want

to execute on the page that it came from. Any ideas?

This happens with the other commands where it renders the javascript for

the command than puts that javascript on a blank page.
2

On 7/28/06, Eric G. [email protected] wrote:

alert(“Hey there”);
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How are you calling this? is it with link_to_remote or within a
form_remote_tag

If you just put it straight into a link_to then it will redirect you to
a
new page and display the results of the action.

3

well, i didnt have the form_remote_tag so I put it in. I now have

<%= form_remote_tag(:html=> {:id=> “signup_form”},:url => { :action =>
:tester }) %>

as my form tag. The method is as follows:

def tester
render :update do |page|
page.insert_html(:after, ‘sport1’, ‘working’)
end
end

Again, I still get “new Insertion.After(“sport1”, “working”);”

on a blank page. What am I doing wrong. I have no plugins installed
either that might conflict.

How are you calling this? is it with link_to_remote or within a
form_remote_tag

If you just put it straight into a link_to then it will redirect you to
a
new page and display the results of the action.

4

On 7/28/06, Eric G. [email protected] wrote:

render :update do |page|

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Do you have a layout definied with

<%= javascript_include_tag :defaults %>

It sounds like you don’t have the prototype.js file loaded into your
page.
The prototype file is the default set of scripts that provides ajax
functionality. You will need to include them