Re: [Rails] Re: Re: How to call a helper function from jQuery?

On 5 April 2011 17:58, Edward Stembler <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> Colin Law wrote in post #991056:
>> On 5 April 2011 16:07, Edward Stembler <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
>> So, if I understand correctly, you don't want to call the helper from
>> javascript, you want to fire the AJAX call from javascript and call
>> the helper from the view rendered by the AJAX action on the server, to
>> update the appropriate div on the page.
>
> Yes, I'm not sure what the proper procedure is, or the best practice.
> If I cannot make the call from javascript to my helper function, then do
> I create a .js.erb partial view?  And if so, what does the pattern look
> like?

The helper is a ruby file returning html, right? In that case you
just call it from the html.erb file rendered by the AJAX action. js
doesn't come into it.

Colin

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