Hi,
I'm using rails 2.3.2 with jrails/jquery and remote_function works.
Do you have enclosed the remote_function call with <script> tag ?
Try this...
<script language="javascript">
<%= remote_function(:update => "definition_box", :url => { :action => :lookup
} ) %>
</script>
Hope this helps !
> I've tried moving the code around in different ways, but so far I
> haven't gotten remote_function to work for me (I'm using Rails 2.3.2 on
> my Mac). I want to make an AJAX call when I double-click a word on my
> page, and the Javascript function is being called when the ondblclick
> event is fired, but nothing happens when it gets to my the "new
> Ajax.Request" part of my function. The Rails console doesn't even show
> it as making a call to my controller.
>
> There is a DIV called "definition_box", so my remote_function call used
> to read like this:
>
> <%= remote_function(:update => "definition_box", :url => { :action =>
> :lookup } ) %>
>
>
> Then I read <a
> href="http://craiccomputing.blogspot.com/2009/02/rails-ajax-and-rjs-issue-seeing.html";>this</a>
> and took that out since supposedly it might be duplicating the reference
> to the DIV (here in the view and in the controller), so now it looks
> like this:
>
> <%= remote_function(:url => { :action => :lookup } ) %>
>
>
> As you can see, I'm not even trying to pass the Javascript parameter to
> remote_function at the moment. My Javascript function looks like the
> following and does show me the alert box:
>
> function lookupWord(t) {
>
> alert('moving forward');
>
> <%= remote_function(:update => "definition_box", :url => { :action =>
> :lookup } ) %>
>
> }
>
> This is what I currently have in my controller:
>
>
> class HomeController < ApplicationController
> def index
> end
>
> def lookup()
> logger.debug('here')
> render :update do |page|
> page.replace_html 'definition_box', 'Done!'
> end
> end
> end
>
>
> There used to be a new line in my routes.rb, but I think if I'm going to
> the same controller, that doesn't change anything, so I commented it
> out. Can you tell me why the text in my definition_box DIV is not
> changing to "Done!" ???
>
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