Question

I’m getting ActionController::RoutingError in Profiles#show when I click a link to render a layout as part of my implementation of jQuery UI tabs. Here’s my link_to:

<%= link_to "Messages", :controller => 'profiles', :action => 'profile_messages', :remote => true %>

My ProfilesController:

def profile_messages
  @messages = User.find(@profile.user_id).messages
  respond_to do |format|
    format.html # index.html.erb
    format.xml  { render :xml => @messages }
  end
end

My profile_messages erb layout:

<div id="tabs-2">
<% for message in @user.messages %>
  <div class="message-1">
  </div>
<% end %>
</div><!-- end messages -->

Routes.rb:

resources :messages do
  get "messages/profile" => :profile_messages
  resources :responses
end

What I want to happen is: when you click the link created by my link_to, the layout in profile_messages.html.erb shows and loads the messages in that specific layout. What’s going on here?

UPDATE: Adding the new line in Routes.rb gives me a new route:

message_messages_profile GET    /messages/:message_id/messages/profile(.:format)  {:action=>"profile_messages", :controller=>"messages"}

So I tried this in my Profiles show.html.erb I put:

<li><%= link_to "Messages", message_messages_profile_path, :remote => true %></li>

This gives me a RoutingError in Profiles#show — No route matches {:action=>"profile_messages", :controller=>"messages"}. Even when I add the following into my MessagesController:

def profile_messages
  @message = @user.messages.find(params[:user_id])
  respond_to do |format|
    format.html # index.html.erb
    format.xml  { render :xml => @messages }
  end
end

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