Passing parameters to Javascript

Rails
1

Hello,

I’m trying to call a Javascript function from a Ruby template, and have
zero success passing in parameters.

function myFunction(stringToDisplay) {
var my_div = document.getElementById(“my_div”);
var text = document.createTextNode("String to display is " +
stringToDisplay);
my_div.appendChild(text);
}

…

<a href="#" onclick="myFunction(’<% @hello %>’)>Call my javascript
function

If I hardcode parameters value everything works fine. However, I have no
luck passing parameters in. I’ve tried ‘<%= @hello -%>’, but it only
causes @hello to render.

Please help!

2

katya wrote:

I’m trying to call a Javascript function from a Ruby template, and have
zero success passing in parameters.
…
<a href="#" onclick="myFunction(’<% @hello %>’)>Call my javascript
function

If I hardcode parameters value everything works fine. However, I have no
luck passing parameters in. I’ve tried ‘<%= @hello -%>’, but it only
causes @hello to render.

I’m not clear what you want to do. What do you want to render if not
the value of @hello?

Call my javascript function

should work if you want to use the value of @hello at the time
the template is rendered.

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3

katya wrote:

the template is rendered.
link.
I’m still not clear whether it’s just a matter of getting the
value of @hello that has been rendered into the parameter of
myFunction to appear on your page, or whether @hello must be
generated at the time the link is clicked.

If the former, and if by the looks of it the string is HTML rather
than text, you should be appending HTML to the div using

<%= link_to_function ‘Call my javascript function’,
update_element_function( ‘my_div’, :position => :bottom, :content
=> @hello ) %>

If the latter, you need an AJAX call. Either

<%= link_to_remote( ‘Call my javascript function’,
:url => {:action => ‘get_string’},
:success => ‘myFunction(request.responseText)’ ) %>

or

<%= link_to_remote( ‘Call my javascript function’,
:url => {:action => ‘get_string’},
:update => ‘my_div’, :position => :bottom ) %>

CONTROLLER:

def get_string
@hello = …
render :text => @hello
end

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We develop, watch us RoR, in numbers too big to ignore.

4

Mark Reginald J. wrote:

I’m not clear what you want to do. What do you want to render if not
the value of @hello?

Well, I do want @hello to render, but inside of a specified in the
function div, not where I make a call to the javascipt.

Call my javascript function

should work if you want to use the value of @hello at the time
the template is rendered.

Here is the source of the page once it get rendered after I tried that:

<a href="#" onclick="myFunction(’\n\n\n\n\n<table
id=“mainTabs”…’)>Call my javascript
function

Value of @hello is a dynamically constructed html string that I would
like to get rendered in a particular place once the user clicks on a
link.

Thank you for the suggestion!

5

I’m still not clear whether it’s just a matter of getting the
value of @hello that has been rendered into the parameter of
myFunction to appear on your page, or whether @hello must be
generated at the time the link is clicked.

It is the former, and it works great! Thank you so much for your help!

If the former, and if by the looks of it the string is HTML rather
than text, you should be appending HTML to the div using

<%= link_to_function ‘Call my javascript function’,
update_element_function( ‘my_div’, :position => :bottom, :content
=> @hello ) %>