Respond_with javascript

My ajax stopped working when I switched to using respond_with. For my
Votes, I have the create action and the corresponding create.js.erb,
and respond_to :html, :js, :xml in the controller. Heres the log when
I try and create a vote:

Started POST “/stories/3-asdfasdf1111/votes” for 127.0.0.1 at Fri Jan
14 20:46:36 -0800 2011
Processing by VotesController#create as /
Parameters: {“story_id”=>“3-asdfasdf1111”}
SQL (1.9ms) SHOW TABLES
SQL (2.0ms) SHOW TABLES
SQL (2.5ms) SHOW TABLES
User Load (2.4ms) SELECT users.* FROM users WHERE (users.id
= 3) LIMIT 1
CACHE (0.0ms) SELECT users.* FROM users WHERE (users.id =
3) LIMIT 1
Story Load (2.4ms) SELECT stories.* FROM stories WHERE
(stories.id = 3) LIMIT 1
SQL (0.4ms) BEGIN
Vote Load (0.7ms) SELECT votes.id FROM votes WHERE
(votes.user_id = 3) AND (votes.story_id = 3) LIMIT 1
SQL (1.4ms) ROLLBACK
Completed in 1466ms

ActionView::MissingTemplate (Missing template votes/new with
{:locale=>[:en, :en], :handlers=>[:builder, :rjs, :rhtml, :erb, :rxml,
:haml], :formats=>[:html]}
in view paths “/Users/snibble/Projects/Ruby/storychan/app/views”, “/
Users/snibble/Projects/Ruby/storychan/vendor/plugins/white_list/app/
views”):
app/controllers/votes_controller.rb:16:in `create’

Rendered /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-3.0.3/lib/
action_dispatch/middleware/templates/rescues/missing_template.erb
within rescues/layout (1.0ms)

The votes controller only has the create option:

def create
@story = Story.find(params[:story_id])
@vote = @story.votes.create(:user => current_user)

if @vote.errors.empty? && @vote.valid?
  flash[:notice] = 'Successfully voted!'
else
  flash[:error] = 'You already voted for that story!'
end

respond_with @vote

end

I forgot to mention that I’m using jQuery. I tried ajax using
prototype in a test app and it worked, but when I use jQuery it
doesn’t work. However, when using jQuery it will work if I use rjs but
I really don’t want to do that. It seems to me that when I’m using
jQuery, it doesn’t recognize the .js.erb files. As far as I know, I’m
using the most recent version of jQuery and the most recent version of
the rails driver for it.

I found a solution here:

Mike Chai wrote in post #975827:

I forgot to mention that I’m using jQuery. I tried ajax using
prototype in a test app and it worked, but when I use jQuery it
doesn’t work. However, when using jQuery it will work if I use rjs but
I really don’t want to do that. It seems to me that when I’m using
jQuery, it doesn’t recognize the .js.erb files.

Good. Your JavaScript should be static. .js.erb is a bad habit.

Best,

Marnen Laibow-Koser
http://www.marnen.org
[email protected]

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