Question

I have a partial that is being rendered via ajax and the result used to replace a div’s contents. This partial is rendering correctly but when I inspect the element the javascript tag and it’s javascript is not rendered in the browser. The partial is similar to the following

<style>
  /* some styles */
</style>
<script type="text/javascript">
  alert("did it work");
</script>

<% @array.each do |el| %>
  <!--make table w/ array -->
<% end %>

When i inspect the element everything is there but the javascript. and i have evalJS: true on my Ajax.Updater options (i’m using prototype but i don’t think that makes any difference). The odd thing is that when i put the following in the action i can see the rendered template in the console w/ the js

test = render :partial => "my_partial.html.erb"
puts test
test

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

If you look here: http://api.prototypejs.org/ajax/Ajax/Updater/ you will notice that the correct option name is evalScripts (but read about its use, because it has some limitations).