Hello,
I’ve got a little problem with remote functions. I call it for example
like this: <%= link_to_remote ‘bla’, :url => ‘bla/whatever’, :method =>
:get %>
that function would be:
def whatever
flash[:notice] = “You’re in whatever!”
update_content
end
since I don’t want the page to be reloaded completely, I update each div
box that needs to be updated:
def update_content
render :update do |page|
page.replace ‘loginBox’, :partial => ‘shared/login’
page.replace ‘contentBox’, :partial => ‘shared/content’
page.replace ‘navigation’, :partial => ‘shared/navigation’
page.replace ‘menuBox’, :partial => ‘shared/menu’
end
end
My problem nos is that the partial views/shared/_content.html.erb has a
yield which doesn’t show me the content of views/bla/whatever.html.erb
anymore and only shows it when I access it directly (not using remote
functions).
Does anyone know how I possibly could still show the content of the
template of each action where yield is?
My other approach was:
<%= link_to_remote ‘bla’, :url => ‘bla/whatever’, :update =>
‘contentBox’, :method => :get %>
def whatever
flash[:notice] = “You’re in whatever!”
respond_to do |format|
format.html
format.xml { head :ok }
end
end
That would show the template as I want it but doesn’t update login,
navigation and menuBox.
Any ideas? I’m kind out of ideas… 
I just figured out you can use
yield(page)
def update_content
render :update do |page|
page.replace ‘loginBox’, :partial => ‘shared/login’
page.replace ‘contentBox’, :partial => ‘shared/content’
page.replace ‘navigation’, :partial => ‘shared/navigation’
page.replace ‘menuBox’, :partial => ‘shared/menu’
-----> yield(page) <-----
end
end
but yield wants some block, if I pass a String in the block nothing
really happens…
Even though it became some monolog already…
I found a not so good solution to my problem:
def update_content
render :update do |page|
page.replace ‘loginBox’, :partial => ‘shared/login’
page.replace ‘navigation’, :partial => ‘shared/navigation’
page.replace ‘menuBox’, :partial => ‘shared/menu’
page.replace ‘contentBody’, :file => ‘bla/whatever’
end
end
Is :file a proper solution? If so, is there any variable that tells me
where the call is coming from (in my case it’s called whatever) so I
don’t have to give the :file path as a parameter whenever I call it?
I’m desperate… is there no way to somehow render the default template
AND do some render :update or include the default template in render
:update?
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 8:46 PM, Peter V.
request.uri etc (that variable is available in the views)
More details for request.uri and (lots of) friends:
http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionController/Request.html#M000694
Sorry, I was mistaken, request.uri does not exist
What does exist is
- request.request_uri
- request.url
The results of a small test:
request.request_uri = /home
request.url = http://localhost:3000/home
These 2 attributes are available both in the controller and in the
views.
HTH,
Peter
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Heinz S.
[email protected] wrote:
If so, is there any variable that tells me
where the call is coming from (in my case it’s called whatever) so I
don’t have to give the :file path as a parameter whenever I call it?
I am not sure I understand your question.
Would you mean something like
request.uri etc (that variable is available in the views)
or simply
controller.action_name (available in the views)
More details for request.uri and (lots of) friends:
http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionController/Request.html#M000694
for the controller.action_name:
ActionController and what the heck is attr_internal? | Chronicling My Ruby on Rails Journey
Was that your question ?
HTH,
Peter
self.controller_name and self.action_name was what I was looking for,
thanks.
Anyone knows an alternative for:
page.replace ‘contentBody’, :file =>
self.controller_name+’/’+self.action_name?
Looks pretty dirty…
