Question

I have a a sidebar that like this;

<div id = "sidebar-links">
      <% @locations.each do |locs| %>
        <p style = "border-bottom: 1px black solid">
        <a href = "#" class = "sidebar-click"><%= locs['Address'] %></a></p>
      <% end %>
    </div>

I want to render a partial in another div id = "container"whenever one of the side bar links is clicked and also want to pass locs as a local variable to that partial;

How would I go about doing that?

Answer 1

First of all try using the link_to helper method:

<%= link_to locs['Address'], ajax_link, :remote => true, :html => {:class => "sidebar-click"} %>

Then you should create a js bind to handle that ajax response, something like:

$(function() { 
  $(".sidebar-click").bind("ajax:success",  
    function(event, data){  
      $("#container").html(data);  
  });  
}); 

UPDATE:
please check the following documentation:
http://apidock.com/rails/ActionView/Helpers/PrototypeHelper/link_to_remote