Question

Is it possible to use the ActiveRecord Callbacks

• before_create
• after_create
• before_save
• after_save
• before_destroy
• after_destroy

to display notifications using jquery to the user?

Can someone provide an example??

Thanks

Answer 1

It’s not the responsibility of the model to comunicate back to the view. In my opinion this should be handled in the controller, not the model. The controller could look like:

respond_to :json
def create
  if @page.save
    respond_with {:message => "Aye Okay!"}
  else
    respond_with {:message => "Oops, something went wrong."}
  end
end

The destroy and before create cases could follow the same idea: check manually in the controller and send the message from there.

Not exactly what you asked but I think you should keep them separated.