Question

I have the following Rails link generating code

(I have removed potentially ‘industry secret’ stuff, sorry for the odd names, but the length of variable names and values match)

<%= link_to_remote 'FOUR', :method => 'get', :url => {:action => 'testing01_four_log_info', :fourth_name => 'LA1', :testing01_num => '123'} %> 

This code generates:

new Ajax.Request('/traffic/testing01_four_log_info?testing01_num=123&fourth_name=LA1', {asynchronous:true, evalScripts:true, method:'get'}); 

The issue is that the link works and returns values when clicked in IE and Safari and Chrome and Opera. It does not from Firefox (Version 3.0.6). In fact the Firebug console seems to indicate that nothing is even getting sent. However, when I do click on the link the :before code (that I left out of the link_to_remote code above) does actually get executed.

So, what am I doing wrong?

EDIT: Okay, so after working on this issue more it is an issue with Firefox and how it is handling the code. I can request the URL directly from within Firefox and it will work. So it’s either a bug with Firefox or a bug with my code. Duh! 🙂 As a side note, I have run into this issue once before. In that case though it was because the URL was too long and in that case Apache wasn’t happy. In this case it’s Firefox that isn’t happy about something.

And debugging with Wireshark shows that there ain’t nothing going across the wire. Other links will go across the wire, but not this one. From Firefox only.

EDIT: Solved. Adblock Plus was the culprit. Disabling it for my site fixed the issue. Thank you Stack Overflow!

Answer 1

When really weird things like this happen, it’s time to double-check the obvious.

• Do you have JavaScript enabled in Firefox?
• Do you have NoScript, or anything like it, installed?