Thank you for the suggestion. This is new for me and I don't have a
strong experience with Ajax and JQuery, I just played around a bit
with them in some php project.
Could you point me to a comprehensive guide or tutorial?
On Apr 26, 8:29 pm, David Kahn <d...@structuralartistry.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 8:45 AM, johnlucas <gianluca.trombe...@gmail.com>wrote:
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> > New to RoR here. I need to execute two actions with one click.
> > Basically when a link/button is clicked, I need to populate two
> > different div in the same page, both of them being two different
> > resources. I would like to do this in AJAX.
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> > So far I could do the job with one resource. I have one controller
> > called "map", this is the erb that it shows when its index method is
> > called:
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> > <div id="columns">
> > <div id="side">
> > <div id="university">
> > <% if @university %>
> > <%= render @university %>
> > <% end %>
> > </div>
> > </div>
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> > <div id="main">
> > <table>
> > <% @universities.each do |university| %>
> > <tr>
> > <td><%= university.name %></td>
> > <td><%= university.city %></td>
> > <td><%= link_to 'Summary', university,
> > :remote => true %></td>
> > </tr>
> > <% end %>
> > </table>
> > </div>
> > </div>
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> > The div "university" is rendered correctly with AJAX, I have a
> > _university.html.erb view in the universities view folder. What I
> > would like to do now is to populate a second div clicking the button
> > summary, one click two actions, something like the following:
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> > <div id="columns">
> > <div id="side">
> > <div id="university">
> > <% if @university %>
> > <%= render @university %>
> > <% end %>
> > </div>
> > </div>
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> > <div id="main">
> > <table>
> > <% @universities.each do |university| %>
> > <tr>
> > <td><%= university.name %></td>
> > <td><%= university.city %></td>
> > <td><%= link_to 'Summary', university,
> > :remote => true %></td>
> > </tr>
> > <% end %>
> > </table>
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> > <div id="infoWindow2">
> > <% if @data_point_entry %>
> > <%= render @data_point_entry%>
> > <% end %>
> > </div>
> > </div>
> > </div>
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> > What do you suggest to do in this case? I thought I could use a custom
> > action in the map controller that would take care of displaying both
> > divs but then I wouldn't know how to deal with AJAX. On the top of
> > that, I don't know if this would be a best practice.
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> Yeah, I would recommend using jquery ajax calls. The button could call a
> javascript method which calls your ajax methods to the server, and populate
> the response into your page. If this is all new, I would suggest to first
> get one of the requests working, and then add in the second.
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> > Suggestions?
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