Someone has to know how to do this

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I’ve got my site posting comments with ajax, but I can’t seem to handle
the callback correctly.

Do I just put what I want returned in the “comments.rhtml” file? I’ve
been trying to do this, but am having no luck.

If I have the parameters for the comments, I should be able to single
them out, but I’m not sure how to do it. This is what I mean:

<%=params[:comments]%> #returns name, site, comment, but not
individually.

How can I do this essentially (without getting errors),

<%=params[:comments.name]%>
<%=params[:comments.site]%>
<%=params[:comments.created_at]%>
<%=params[:comments.entry]%>

Also, when I try to use strftime in “comments.rhtml” it says that it’s
undefined.

I don’t even know if the above things that I mentioned are even the
right way to go about it, I just don’t know how to do it.

The comments are saving to the database fine, but I have to refresh the
page to get it to show up. Also, I would like to use
“Effect.Appear(‘new-comment’)” oncomplete. This doesn’t seem to be
working either.

Can someone tell me how to display the comment after an Ajax submission?

Please HELP!

Thanks!

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On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 17:01 +0100, ryan wrote:

individually.

How can I do this essentially (without getting errors),

<%=params[:comments.name]%>
<%=params[:comments.site]%>
<%=params[:comments.created_at]%>
<%=params[:comments.entry]%>

I would think that these should be…

<%= params[:comments][:name] %>
<%= params[:comments][:site] %>
<%= params[:comments][:created_at] %>
<%= params[:comments][:entry] %>

Also, when I try to use strftime in “comments.rhtml” it says that it’s
undefined.

you should probably show how your using it but I would think that this
should work…

<%= (params[:comments][:created_at]).strftime("%m/%d/%Y") %>

I don’t even know if the above things that I mentioned are even the
right way to go about it, I just don’t know how to do it.

The comments are saving to the database fine, but I have to refresh the
page to get it to show up. Also, I would like to use
“Effect.Appear(‘new-comment’)” oncomplete. This doesn’t seem to be
working either.

Can someone tell me how to display the comment after an Ajax submission?

I’ll let someone else help with that.

Craig

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I THINK CRAIG NAILED IT ON THE HEAD RYAN !
THANKS CRAIG. MY CAPSLOCKS KEY MUST BE STUCK :smiley:

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Dylan S. wrote:

I THINK CRAIG NAILED IT ON THE HEAD RYAN !
THANKS CRAIG. MY CAPSLOCKS KEY MUST BE STUCK :smiley:

Yes, I can access the name, site, and entry that way, but not the
“created_at” attribute.

How can I access this variable? I guess since it’s automatically
created, it doesn’t show up in the params?

Also, how can I return a count one more than the last comment?
Essentially, displaying #1, #2, #3 with each comment.

Right now, on page load, I’m incrementing a counter inside of the for
loop which iterates through the comments, but since I’m trying to do
ajax, this part won’t be involved in the for loop.

please help again!

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OK - I will bite, even if you posted the topic in caps.

The return from the AJAX call will need to update a div in your page.
Try to get it working by just returning
render_text ‘done’. When you see your page updating the div with ‘done’
you can then try returning the actaully content that you want displayed.

I find the best way to do this is using a partial. To illustrate, here
is an AJAX action from the app that I am currently working on.

def set_priority
requirement = Requirement.find( params[:id] )
requirement.increment_priority
requirement.save
vendors = Vendor.find( :all )
render :partial => “requirements”, :locals => { :requirement =>
requirement, :vendors => vendors }
end

and here is the the rhtml from the original page.

<% for feature in @features %>
<% requirement = feature.requirement( @project.id) %>
<%= render( :partial => “requirements”, :locals => { :requirement =>
requirement, :vendors => @vendors } ) %>
<% end %>

Hope this helps.