Question

I’m following the railscasts rails ajax tutorial and geting into some trouble, am i missing something or is the tutorial only meant to be covered for pre rails 3.1?

controller:

def index

    @notes = Note.search(params[:search])


end

Model:

class Note < ActiveRecord::Base

    def self.search(search)
      if search
        where('name LIKE ?', "%#{search}%")
      else
        scoped
      end
    end


end

View:

<%= form_tag notes_path, :method => 'get', :id => "notes_search" do %>
  <p>
    <%= text_field_tag :search, params[:search] %>
    <%= submit_tag "Search", :name => nil %>
  </p>
  <div id="notes"><%= render 'notes' %></div>
<% end %>

Coffescript file:

jQuery ->
  # Ajax sorting and pagination on click
  $('#notes td.sortable a, #notes .pagination a').live('click', ->
    $.getScript(this.href)
    false
  )
  # Ajax search on submit
  $('#notes_search').submit( ->
    $.get(this.action, $(this).serialize(), null, 'script')
    false
  )
  # Ajax search on keyup
  $('#products_search input').keyup( ->
    $.get($("#notes_search").attr("action"), $("#notes_search").serialize(), null, 'script')
    false
  )

Error is on this line:

ActionView::MissingTemplate in Notes#index

   <div id="notes"><%= render 'notes' %></div>

Answer 1

The ActionView::MissingTemplate exception basically says that there is no view file for the action you’re trying to render.

You need to have a partial view called “_notes.html.erb” for it to work. Inside the view you should have something like that:

<%= hidden_field_tag :direction, params[:direction] %>
<%= hidden_field_tag :sort, params[:sort] %>
<%= will_paginate @notes %>

I took that code from the tutorial you’re referring to http://railscasts.com/episodes/240-search-sort-paginate-with-ajax, maybe you don’t have those params or don’t have will_paginate gem installed yet, adjust it to your needs.