Hi,
I’ve searched for a while online and been unable to find anything
concerning this.
I have a controller with an index action, which has an index view.
This view renders the index page but also needs to execute some
javascript to show some data (using effects) when the page loads. I
thought I could just create the view and RJS with the same name and
the RJS would be run after the view, but it seems to stop if a view is
found.
Then I tried to render the RJS template in the controller, but that
takes over and doesn’t show the view. Finally, I tried render :update
and that also ignores rendering my html view.
How can I render an html view for an action and then execute
javascript (preferably with an RJS file) when the page loads?
Thanks in advance.
On 17 Mar 2008, at 18:25, tparkin wrote:
the RJS would be run after the view, but it seems to stop if a view is
found.
Then I tried to render the RJS template in the controller, but that
takes over and doesn’t show the view. Finally, I tried render :update
and that also ignores rendering my html view.
How can I render an html view for an action and then execute
javascript (preferably with an RJS file) when the page loads?
As you have found, there can only be one render.
Not very nice option: with a script tag.
Nicer option: have your index file load a separate js file that
observes dom:loaded and fires off any stuff you need from there. rjs
won’t help you much here (unless you generate the javascript on the
fly), but to be honest I’ve come round to the feeling that if you’re
generating javascript you might as well remove the middleman. Writing
js with a library like prototype is actually quite fun.
Fred
Is it possible to stub out the included code, perhaps via a helper,
and have it auto-included in the layout without actually modifying the
page or layout?
I’m trying to do something very similar to what Tim is, but I want it
to eventually be a plugin and ideally it just appends the javascript
stuff at the bottom of every page without the app developer having to
do anything other than install the plugin (and maybe set an
environment variable).
-Dan
Hi,
Thanks for this ingenious solution!
On 3/26/08, prooftheory [email protected] wrote:
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<%= update_page_tag do |page|
page.alert("JavaScript Ran On Load!")
page["hide"].hide
end %>
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Tim P.
[email protected]
What if you actually want to use an rjs file? I have code that I want to
reuse.
I suppose you can do the previously mentioned solution (read: hack) and
do
this:
At the bottom of your rhtml file you can use update_page_tag run
generated javascript in a block that acts like an rjs file
For example,
…
…
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<%= update_page_tag do |page|
page.alert("JavaScript Ran On Load!")
page["hide"].hide
end %>
But instead of doing an alert, do page << “myfunc();” and put myfunc()
in
your .js file so that you can reuse it. I haven’t heard of a way to do
this
with an actual .rjs file yet, but that would be the ideal solution.
On 4/20/08, Sn Sc [email protected] wrote:
What if you actually want to use an rjs file? I have code that I want to
reuse.
–
Tim P.
[email protected]
On 20 Apr 2008, at 19:01, Tim P. wrote:
But instead of doing an alert, do page << “myfunc();” and put
myfunc() in your .js file so that you can reuse it. I haven’t heard
of a way to do this with an actual .rjs file yet, but that would be
the ideal solution.
Don’t ask me if this is a good idea, but sticking
<%= javascript_tag render( :partial => ‘thejs’) %>
<% controller.response.content_type = Mime::HTML%>
in a view file seems to do the trick. The second line is needed
because the rjs renderer sets the mime type to text/javascript (unless
it is already set, so you may be able to do without it if you are in a
respond_to block or something like that).
Fred
On 20 Apr 2008, at 19:47, Sn Sc wrote:
Thanks, I’ll try that… does ‘thejs’ refers to the file _thejs.rjs?
Yup
I was thinking something more like this:
http://onrails.org/articles/2006/01/12/rjs-and-link_to_function
That would work, right? Any ideas to modify it so it just runs js on
body load, not wrapped in a function?
It’s effectively the same as what I posted doing.
Fred
Thanks, I’ll try that… does ‘thejs’ refers to the file _thejs.rjs?
I was thinking something more like this:
http://onrails.org/articles/2006/01/12/rjs-and-link_to_function
That would work, right? Any ideas to modify it so it just runs js on
body load, not wrapped in a function?
-S.