Question

I am using Rails and jquery, and I need a dynamic content with ajax.

But I don’t know how to get the current user ID

For example the url is http://www.mywebsite.com/users/20

In my javascript file I need the user ID (20)

$.get("/users/<%= **20** %>.json", function(data)
      {

      }, "json");

Thanks in advance for any help.

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Is there another way to do this ?

Answer 1

You can assign the rails variable value to a javascript variable in your view file like

“<%= javascript_tag “var userId = #{@current_user.id};” %>”

and access the variable inside js file wherever you want.