I am still pretty new to Rails and am working on a basic app and have run into a problem, which I can’t seem to get around, sorry if this question has already been answered, but searching didn’t yield me any results.
Basically I am creating an app that catalogues all of someones’s clothes, Now the main page is the index page of everything they have logged, and each picture is linked to the show page where more information is revealed. I want to use AJAX to bring that show page to the side of the main index page. I am working off of another tutorial to figure this out but have run into a problem. On the initial load of my index page, I need to define a variable for that show page so that it can be rendered using a partial, but I can’t use find(params[:id]) since the user hasn’t selected anything yet. So my question is how do I set that initial value to either just the first item in the catalogue or not have anything appear, and then when someone does click the link, the sidebar shows the more detailed description of the piece of clothing.
Thanks for any help.
You might have some luck working with the ruby gem ‘PJAX’. Here is a screen cast showing you how to get that AJAX sidebar you want. Good luck