RJS head scratcher

I’ve been joyfully using RJS in a lot of our work lately, with no issues
whatsoever. However, I am porting an application to RJS templates that
we’ve had for a while, and having some issues.

When I use Firebug to see what is going on, the response comes back like
this:

try {
new Effect.Highlight(“gi_error_row”,{duration:20});
} catch (e) { alert(‘RJS error:\n\n’ + e.toString()); alert(‘new
Effect.Highlight(“gi_error_row”,{duration:20});’); throw e }

I know from looking at my working apps with RJS that the response should
not be wrapped in a try/catch statement. Most of my googling has turned
up suggestions to make sure your rails project is up to date, but mine
is (1.1.2) and the javascripts have also been updated (prototype
1.5.0_rc0). It was updated via the rake rails:update command…

When I create a new app on my system to test out things, RJS works fine.
There must be some cruft from pre 1.1 rails in my project somewhere, but
where?

I think you’ll find that the RJS callback is provoking
a Ruby error.


– Tom M.

Tom M. wrote:

I think you’ll find that the RJS callback is provoking
a Ruby error.


– Tom M.

I don’t think so. I just tried some super simple code:

Controller

def create

Nothing here yet

end

create.rjs

page.alert “Hi”

View

link_to_remote “Go”, :url => { :action => ‘create’ }

And I still get this as the response (again this is via Firebug, I get
no response whatsoever in the browser window):
try {
alert(“Hi”);
} catch (e) { alert(‘RJS error:\n\n’ + e.toString());
alert(‘alert(“Hi”);’); throw e }

But if I throw that very same code into a new project, everything works
as expected.

On May 16, 2006, at 11:51 AM, Brad D. wrote:

new Effect.Highlight(“gi_error_row”,{duration:20});

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Brad-

I think the try catch statements are only added in development mode.

So in your production sites you probably aren’t seeing it. Try
launching this current app in production mode and see what happens.

-Ezra

On Tuesday, May 16, 2006, at 10:04 PM, Brad D. wrote:

And I still get this as the response (again this is via Firebug, I get

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Look in your environments/development.rb file, you may see a line like…

config.action_view.debug_rjs = true

try turning that off and see if the ‘try’ goes away.

_Kevin

Kevin O. wrote:

config.action_view.debug_rjs = true

try turning that off and see if the ‘try’ goes away.

_Kevin

Yep, that takes away the try/catch stuff, and returns the correct JS
command. Still nothing in the browser, so obviously the scripts aren’t
being eval’ed. Here is the generated onclick event…

onclick=“new Ajax.Request(’/request/create’, {asynchronous:true,
evalScripts:true}); return false;”

Looks good to me (?)

Kevin O. wrote:

Check the content-type of the header…

http://nubyonrails.com/articles/read/313

_Kevin

Ahhh…that led me in the right direction. I was using the utf lib and
had completely forgot about it setting the content-type. I took that
part out of the utf lib, and used the after filter as described in the
link above. Thanks all for helping me troubleshoot…

On Tuesday, May 16, 2006, at 10:39 PM, Brad D. wrote:

being eval’ed. Here is the generated onclick event…
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Check the content-type of the header…

http://nubyonrails.com/articles/read/313

_Kevin