Ajax killed my observe_field

Rails
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I have a page that has a text field on it which in turn has an
observe_field hooked up to it. As the user types in the field, a list
of items on the page gets filtered by that entry. This all works fine.

On the same page, I also have a hidden div that sometimes gets ajaxed
into view using the following:
def add_item_to_list
render :update do |page|
page[‘item_name’].value = ‘’
page.visual_effect :appear,‘add_item_panel’, :duration => 0.5
page[“item_name”].focus()
end
end

User types in this newly visible text field and then hits an ajax done
button which “un-appears” the add_item div.

Now that that div is gone, the filter field mentioned at the beginning
of this post no longer makes the observe_field action happen. You can
type stuff in that field, and it has focus etc. Acts normally in all
ways except that it no longer seems to have an observe_field hooked to
it.

The “hidden” div has a form_remote_tag in it to enable the use of the
add_item text field. I’m guessing that this other form coming into play
is hosing up the observe field for the original form on the main page.

Any ideas?

thanks,
jp

2

Have you used Firebug to see what it tells you?

Cheers,
Zach I.
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3

Zach I. // LT3media wrote:

Have you used Firebug to see what it tells you?

Thanks Zach. So far I’ve only used FireBug for solving CSS problems.
What should I look for to solve an issue like this one? By using
logger.info I’ve already determined that the observe_field is not
kicking the action when something is typed. Don’t know what to look
for.

Is there a good article somewhere about debugging with Firebug?

thanks,
jp