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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [July 27, 2010, 9:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/trouble-with-remote-form-for-html-update/192293 "2010-07-27T21:56:27Z")\
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**Author:**  [@neilbain](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/neilbain)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2010, 9:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/trouble-with-remote-form-for-html-update/192293/1 "2010-07-27T21:56:27Z")
I have a form that accepts comments and adds them to a list without
refreshing the page.
This is the html:
\<%= render :partial =\> 'comment' %\>
\<% remote\_form\_for :comment, :url=\>story\_comments\_path(@story), :html
=\> { :id =\> ‘comment’ } do |form| %\>
##### Make a comment:
\<%= form.text\_field :body %\>
\<%= submit\_tag ‘Comment’ %\>
\<% end %\>
The form works i.e on refreshing the page the new comment is seen in the
comment partial.
From comments\_controller
def create
@story = Story.find(params[:story\_id])
@story.comments.create params[:comment]
flash[:notice] = “Thank you for commenting”
end
This is create.rjs
This was working then didn’t. I don’t know what I did to break it.
Can anybody see where I am going wrong?
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**Author:**  [@neilbain](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/neilbain)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2010, 11:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/trouble-with-remote-form-for-html-update/192293/2 "2010-07-27T23:15:40Z")
On Jul 27, 8:56 pm, Neil B. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:
> This is create.rjs
This is weird - if it’s an rjs file you don’t want script tags - an
rjs file only contains ruby.
Fred
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**Author:**  [@neilbain](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/neilbain)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2010, 12:35am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/trouble-with-remote-form-for-html-update/192293/3 "2010-07-28T00:35:35Z")
So I strip it down to
page.replace\_html(‘aremark’, :partial =\> “content”)
Still won’t work without refreshing the page
Frederick C. wrote:
> On Jul 27, 8:56�pm, Neil B. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:
>
> > This is create.rjs
>
> This is weird - if it’s an rjs file you don’t want script tags - an
> rjs file only contains ruby.
>
> Fred
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**Author:**  [@neilbain](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/neilbain)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2010, 10:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/trouble-with-remote-form-for-html-update/192293/4 "2010-07-27T22:02:48Z")
Neil B. wrote:
> I have a form that accepts comments and adds them to a list without
> refreshing the page.
It should read
I want a form that accepts comments and adds them to a list without
refreshing the page.
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**Author:**  [@neilbain](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/neilbain)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2010, 2:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/trouble-with-remote-form-for-html-update/192293/5 "2010-07-28T14:44:29Z")
In the log I get
ActionView::MissingTemplate (Missing template comments/create.erb in
view path app/views):
Does that help anyone to explain
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**Author:**  [@neilbain](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/neilbain)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2010, 4:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/trouble-with-remote-form-for-html-update/192293/6 "2010-07-28T16:58:11Z")
Hello,
Shouldn’t you be doing page.replace\_html from inside your controller
and using your rjs page as a paramater passed to page.replace\_html??
I think the log is telling you that your request found def
create…but without making def create render something other than
create.html.erb, won’t the controller be looking for that instead of
your rjs template?
Oldroy
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**Author:**  [@neilbain](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/neilbain)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2010, 7:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/trouble-with-remote-form-for-html-update/192293/7 "2010-07-28T19:02:30Z")
Neil B. wrote:
> Oldroy wrote:
> but without making def create render something other than
> create.html.erb, won’t the controller be looking for that instead of
> your rjs template?
I think this is the problem but I don’t know the solution. Surely in the
absence of create.html.erb it should find create.rjs but
doesn’t???
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**Author:**  [@neilbain](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/neilbain)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2010, 6:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/trouble-with-remote-form-for-html-update/192293/8 "2010-07-28T18:43:19Z")
Oldroy wrote:
> Hello,
> Shouldn’t you be doing page.replace\_html from inside your controller
> and using your rjs page as a paramater passed to page.replace\_html??
I don’t understand, how would it find the rjs and if the
page.replace\_htm is in the controller what would it contain?