On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 8:45 AM, johnlucas <gianluca.trombe...@gmail.com>wrote:
> 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. > > 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: > > <div id="columns"> > <div id="side"> > <div id="university"> > <% if @university %> > <%= render @university %> > <% end %> > </div> > </div> > > <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> > > 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: > > <div id="columns"> > <div id="side"> > <div id="university"> > <% if @university %> > <%= render @university %> > <% end %> > </div> > </div> > > <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 id="infoWindow2"> > <% if @data_point_entry %> > <%= render @data_point_entry%> > <% end %> > </div> > </div> > </div> > > 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. > 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. > > Suggestions? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
