what's kind of error you met? did you use firebug to trace? It is better
to use remote-form of rails.
http://www.alfajango.com/blog/rails-3-remote-links-and-forms/ is valuable
to be read if you want to use rails-ujs way.
On Tuesday, May 28, 2013 7:23:00 AM UTC+8, Ruby-Forum.com User wrote:
>
> Hello everyone, I'm a newbie at Ruby on Rails. I spent nearly two days
> of the Memorial Day weekend stumbling upon making Ajax working in Rails.
> At this point, I'm so exhausted and hope that I can get some help to
> move forward. I have tried nearly everything I found on Google but
> still not successful. Initially, I tried the Ajax approach offered by
> Rails but did not work, so I turned to jQuery for Ajax. Basically, I
> want to submit a form using Ajax:
>
> <%= form_tag("/main/contact", :method => "post", :id => "contactForm")
> do %>
> Name: <%= text_field_tag(:name) %><br/>
> Message: <%= text_area_tag(:message) %>
> <%= submit_tag "Send" %>
> <% end %>
> <div id="result"></div>
>
>
> And here's my Ajax code in jQuery:
>
> <script type="text/javascript">
> $("#contactForm").submit(function(event) {
>
> /* stop form from submitting normally */
> event.preventDefault();
>
> /* clear result div */
> $("#result").html('');
>
> /* get values from elements on the page: */
> var values = $(this).serialize();
>
> /* Send the data using post and put the results in a div */
> $.ajax({
> url: "/main/contact",
> type: "post",
> data: values,
> success: function(){
> alert("success");
> $("#result").html(data);
> },
> error:function(){
> alert("failure");
> $("#result").html('there is error while submit');
> }
> });
> });
> </script>
>
>
> And here's my main controller:
>
> def contact
> name = params[:name]
> message = params[:message]
> respond_to do |format|
> format.html # contact.html.erb
> format.json {
> render :data => {:name => name, :message => message}
> }
> end
> end
>
>
> At this point, I just want to test to see if user's name and message can
> be submitted successfully via Ajax, and if so, insert the submitted
> values (name & message) in the <div id="result"></div>. Would you
> please look through and let me know where I did wrong. I appreciate any
> help. Thanks a lot.
>
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