Question

I have my jQuery UI Tabs working right now but need help implementing the Ajax side. What I need help with is getting #tab-2 to show information (@user.messages) from the MessagesController in a layout that exists as a partial in the MessagesController.

My application.js:

$(function() {
    $( "#tabs" ).tabs({
        ajaxOptions: {
            error: function( xhr, status, index, anchor ) {
                $( anchor.hash ).html(
                    "Couldn't load this tab. We'll try to fix this as soon as possible. " +
                    "If this wouldn't be a demo." );
            }
        }
    });
});

My profile show.html.erb:

<div id="tabs">
  <ul id="infoContainer">
    <li><a href="#tabs-1">About</a></li>
    <li><%= link_to "Messages", "messages/profile_messages", :remote => true %></li>
  </ul>
  <div id="tabs-1">
  </div><!-- end profile-about -->
</div>

My _profile_messages partial in MessagesController:

<div id="tabs-2">
    <% for 'message' in @user.messages %>
        <div class="message">
        </div>
    <% end %>
</div>

Here is the HTML output of the jQuery UI Tabs:

<div id="tabs">
  <ul id="infoContainer">
    <li><a href="#tabs-1">About</a></li>
    <li><a href="messages/profile_messages" data-remote="true">Messages</a></li>
  </ul>
<div id="tabs-1">

Here are the tabs as seen in Firebug:

<div id="tabs" class="ui-tabs ui-widget ui-widget-content ui-corner-all">
  <ul id="infoContainer" class="ui-tabs-nav ui-helper-reset ui-helper-clearfix ui-widget-header ui-corner-all">
    <li class="ui-state-default ui-corner-top ui-tabs-selected ui-state-active"><a href="#tabs-1">About</a></li>
    <li class="ui-state-default ui-corner-top"><a href="#ui-tabs-1" data-remote="true">Messages</a></li>
  </ul>
  <div id="tabs-1" class="ui-tabs-panel ui-widget-content ui-corner-bottom">
  </div>
</div>

The fact that Firebug shows the second link as #ui-tabs-1 seems odd to me. Then when I click the “Messages” link to load the @user.messages, Firebug shows an error Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found) - :3000/profiles/messages/profile_messages.

Answer 1

Thanks to the combined efforts of folks here on SO I was able to get this to work. Check out these questions for more code:

Exclude application layout in Rails 3 div

Rails 3 jQuery UI Tabs issue loading with Ajax