Question

In rails I’ve got a form with remote true in it like so:

<%= form_for(@thing, :html => { :'data-type' => 'json' },  :remote => true ) do |f| %>

And I’m picking up the ajax event in the javascript with this:

$('#new_thing').bind('ajax:complete', function(json, status, xhr){
        console.log("complete!");
        console.log(json);
        console.log(xhr);
        console.log(status);
});

In the controller I have the line of code to respond to it like this:

respond_to do |format|
  format.json { render :json => @thing }
end

The problem is the console logged return response from the server isn’t a json object, it’s status object and the json response is a text string under the property “responseText” which has been escaped.

How do I get the server to respond with just a json object of the @thing?

Is there something wrong in any of the stages in this?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Try parseJSON(json['responseText']) to get JSON object of servers response. I think you should manually bind Ajax call on form submit event, to get JSON object without conversions in success handler of $.ajax() function