Incorrect. You HAVE to bind your Ajax events, or else there is no 
functionality. (the page does not refresh and gives no user interaction). I 
do not think that expecting user interaction is an abnormal expectation in 
a modern web app.



On Sunday, February 16, 2020 at 5:39:20 PM UTC-5, Ariel Juodziukynas wrote:
>
> It doesn't say you that you HAVE to bind all the ajax events. It 
> explicitly says that you "probably" want to do that if you "probably" want 
> to do something other than just submitting the form.
>
> El dom., 16 feb. 2020 a las 17:53, Momeas Interactive (<
> te...@datatravels.com <javascript:>>) escribió:
>
>> it says here in the docs that for turobolinks that you now have to BIND 
>> ALL YOUR AJAX EVENTS  (!?!?) if you want your forms to submit correctly. 
>>
>>
>> https://guides.rubyonrails.org/working_with_javascript_in_rails.html#remote-elements
>>
>>
>> "You probably don't want to just sit there with a filled out <form>, 
>> though. You probably want to do something upon a successful submission. To 
>> do that, bind to the ajax:success event. On failure, use ajax:error. Check 
>> it out:"
>>
>> $(document).ready ->
>>   $("#new_article").on("ajax:success", (event) ->
>>     [data, status, xhr] = event.detail
>>     $("#new_article").append xhr.responseText
>>   ).on "ajax:error", (event) ->
>>     $("#new_article").append "<p>ERROR</p>"
>>
>>
>> basically… sitting there with a filled out form is exactly what happens 
>> if you just do a generic form_with and post it now in Rails 6 … literally, 
>> the user just sits there and nothing happens.
>>
>> are you really supposed to bind all your turbolinks forms throughout your 
>> website like this? This seems totally nuts to me, and, kind of, not at all 
>> 'unobtrusive' … (I thought the whole point of 'unobtrusive' was to not have 
>> to write a lot of helper/glue/boiler plate code.)
>>
>> it seems totally crazy to me that out-of-the-box Rails 6 installations 
>> can't do the most basic web function of submitting a form without the 
>> developer having to know about binding events of the Ajax calls. In the old 
>> days didn't this used to 'just work' out of the box?
>>
>> anyone else have any thoughts on this and think Rails is moving in the 
>> wrong direction here? The main attraction of Rais is how easy it is to make 
>> so much functionality with little config and effort, and this area seems 
>> too basic to me to require this top-heavy approach that requires binding up 
>> Ajax events.
>>
>> I think Rails 7 should move away from having turbolinks turned on by 
>> default — it's a good technology if you want to opt-in to it, but it's got 
>> so much configuration that it often just gets in the way for new Rails 
>> apps. It would be very easy to simply leave off Turbolinks in default Rails 
>> apps and then simply provide instructions for opting-in to it. (Like, 
>> active record session store and other things that used to be default and 
>> then were extracted out into separate opt-in gems.) 
>>
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> Jason
>>
>>
>>
>>
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