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Asked: 2026-06-08T04:51:43+00:00

I have a lightbox in which I want to render a Rails partial, like

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I have a lightbox in which I want to render a Rails partial, like so:

var data = "render :conversations => new";
$('#lightbox').append('#{escape_javascript(data)');

Unfortunately, this results in the text “render :conversations => new” appearing in the lightbox, rather than the actual rendering. I assume this is because I’m appending the partial rather than rendering it at runtime. I’ve followed the advice on this thread, but to little success. It recommends I add a “!=” in front of the append line like so:

!= "$('#lightbox').append('#{escape_javascript(data)');"

This throws a syntax error because of the “!=”. Perhaps I’m using this symbol incorrectly, but I can’t find any information about it on Google. How might I get this to work?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I think you want to do:

    $('#lightbox').append('#{escape_javascript(render :conversations => new)');

    But I don’t really understand how your code could result in appending the text “render :conversations => new”. var data = "render :conversations => new"; looks like JavaScript and escape_javascript(data) is server side ruby so it could not know about data. I notice also that the the #{ has no ending }. Is this really the exact code you tested?

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