Hi Frederick,

>format doesn't actually help you here:  the ajax request is genuinely
> requesting html. What you can do is
>
> if xhr?
> ...
> end

what i should write if xhr? is true?

something like:
render :partial =>show, :id => @sample

if i write that the def show is not call, neither show.js.rjs.
thanks


On Sep 10, 8:59 am, Frederick Cheung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On 10 Sep 2008, at 15:55, da991319 wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hi Robert,
>
> > I indeed did try with format.js. It occurs an error: template is
> > missing, Missing template samples/update.js.erb.
>
> > as I say i already have a show template and show.js.rjs that is doing
> > everything necessary if def show is called by an AJAX request. that
> > why i would like to call def show via an xmlhttprequest but from def
> > update in the controller ( i am not sure i am really clear) and i
> > think that is what xml_http_request is supposed to do (but i can be
> > wrong as i am new to AJAX and co).
>
> format doesn't actually help you here:  the ajax request is genuinely  
> requesting html. What you can do is
>
> if xhr?
> ...
> end
> (xhr? is an alias for xml_http_request?)
>
> which can tell if the request was submitted by prototype.
>
> Fred
>
>
>
> > On Sep 10, 8:40 am, Robert Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
> >>> if @sample.update_attributes(params[:sample])
> >>>   flash[:notice] = 'Sample was successfully updated.'
> >>>   respond_to do |format|
> >>>     format.html {redirect_to(@sample)}
> >>>     format.js
> >>>   end
> >>> else
> >>>   render :action => "edit"
> >>> end
>
> >> Oops, I take this back. It should be more like:
>
> >>   # PUT /people/1
> >>   # PUT /people/1.xml
> >>   def update
> >>     @person = Person.find(params[:id])
>
> >>     respond_to do |format|
> >>       if @person.update_attributes(params[:person])
> >>         flash[:notice] = 'Person was successfully updated.'
> >>         format.html { redirect_to(@person) }
> >>         format.js
> >>         format.xml  { head :ok }
> >>       else
> >>         format.html { render :action => "edit" }
> >>         format.xml  { render :xml => @person.errors, :status =>
> >> :unprocessable_entity }
> >>       end
> >>     end
> >>   end
>
> >> I don't know where my head was on that previous post. Sorry about
> >> that...
> >> --
> >> Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.
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