[Rails] Re: Re: RJS vs Javascript Template in Rails 3?

Rob Lacey wrote in post #949724:
> On 13 October 2010 03:15, Marnen Laibow-Koser <lists@ruby-forum.com>
> wrote:
>>>
>>> #JS
>>> $("some_div").update("<%= escape_javascript(render('some_partial'))
>>> %>");
>>
>> Well, you should never ever be writing ERb in your JavaScript like that.
>> JS files should IMHO always be static.
>
>
> I've been looking at making a very JS heavy interface of late and it
> actually requires replacing sections of the page with dynamic content.
> Your take on it suggests that you could only ever return a static js
> script, and therefore have no dynamic content. Is that right?

Not at all. You can have dynamic content with static JS files (search
the list archives for more info -- I go through this discussion every
couple of weeks :) ). My usual method is to have the JS read a hidden
element that Rails puts in the DOM.

Best,
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Marnen Laibow-Koser
http://www.marnen.org
marnen@marnen.org

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