[Rails] Re: Re: Does using :render => :partial breaks the MVC separation during an ajax call

Colin Law wrote in post #970508:
> On 24 December 2010 14:29, Marnen Laibow-Koser <lists@ruby-forum.com>
> wrote:
>> ivanpoval wrote in post #970446:
>>> The code sample you provided is very common and many respectful Rails
>>> developers use it.
>>> If we go out of the scope of Rails and start speaking very strictly
>>> about MVC, then probably we can say that it is not actually the
>>> controller's job to do that type of things.
>>
>> No. It *is* the controller's job to trigger render operations. There's
>> nothing un-MVC about this at all.
>
> Is the fact that the controller is specifying that a particular div
> should be updated ('my_div' in this case) a bit non-MVC?

Good point! Yes, that might be. So is the fact that the controller
contains literal RJS, but that's just the way to get it to contain a
render :partial statement.

>
> Colin

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