Question

I would like to change a Workorder.wostatus_id based on data in html.

In my index html, I have the wostatus.id stored like this:

<span id="woid">4</span>

I would like to update the workorder.wostatus_id = 4

This is in the workorders.js.coffee – but, it’s not working:

   $.ajax
     type: 'POST'
     url: 'http://localhost:5000/workorders'
     data:
       workorder:
         wostatus_id: $("#woid").val()

Maybe I’m not getting to the right workorder record?

Even doing this didn’t update the workorder.wostatus_id

     $.ajax
       type: 'POST'
         url: "http://localhost:5000/workorders"
       data:
         workorder:
           wostatus_id: '3'

This didn’t work either:

     $.ajax
      type: 'POST'
      url: "http://localhost:5000/workorder/17"
      data:
        wostatus_id: '7'

I’m missing something big time.

Does the ajax POST execute this code in the workorder controller????

 # PUT /workorders/1
 # PUT /workorders/1.json
 def update
  @workorder = Workorder.find(params[:id])

  respond_to do |format|
  if @workorder.update_attributes(params[:workorder])
    format.html { redirect_to @workorder, notice: 'Workorder was successfully updated.' }
    format.json { head :ok }
  else
    format.html { render action: "edit" }
    format.json { render json: @workorder.errors, status: :unprocessable_entity }
  end
end

UPDATE:

I added this to the workorder controller:

 def changestatus
  @workorder = Workorder.find(params[:id])
  @workorder.update_attribute :wostatus_id, '4'
  render nothing: true
 end

I added this to the routes:

  resources :workorders do
   member { put :changestatus }
  end

This is currently in the js.coffee:

  $.ajax
    type: 'PUT'
    url: "http://localhost:5000/workorders/11/changestatus"
    data:
      wostatus_id: 4

(I’m hard coding things until I get the next step working.)

SO – this works, workorder 11 gets wostatus_id changed to 4.

But, now I’m having trouble getting the right information from the html.
The html contains 2 data fields I need – one for which workorder and the other is what the wostatus_id is.

Here is the html for the update url:

<div class="false" data-change-url="http://localhost:5000/workorders/16/changestatus">

I thought this would get that url – but, it doesn’t work:

$(this).data('change-url')

Answer 1

Found out I didn’t need any new controller code – I could just use update.
This is for jquery-ui sortable.

   receive: (event, ui) ->
     str_id =  $(ui.item).attr('id')
     woid = str_id.split('_')[1]
     $.update "/workorders/" + woid,
       workorder:
         wostatus_id: $(this).data('wostatus-id')

Thanks for the help – you got me going in the right direction.