Question

so I’m just trying to do something simple but I can’t seem to find any sort of solution in my books or easily googling it.

<div id="subscribe">
<% if session[:read_random]
    unless is_subscribed?(session[:read_random].last)%>
            <%= link_to 'Subscribe', subscriptions_path(feed_id: session[:read_random].last), method: :post, remote: :true %>

    <% else %>
        <%= link_to 'Unsubscribe', subscriptions_path(feed_id: session[:read_random].last), method: :delete, remote: :true %>

<%  end
   end %>
</div>

and my create.js.erb is:

if is_subscribed?(session[:read].last)
    $('#subscribe').html("Unsubscribe");
else
    $('#subscribe').html("Subscribe");
end

so I know that this code is OBVIOUSLY wrong, just please tell me what I’m doing wrong here, I would like to give the user the option to subscribe if he is not and vice versa if he is subscribed.

Do I need to put link_to inside the html portion of the jQuery statements? The only issue is, I though I would try this to see if it works, and I’m not even getting any updated text from the ajax call. Server says it has rendered subscriptions/create.js.erb and the database is being updated appropriately

Answer 1

solution: in views/subscriptions/create.js.erb and destroy.js.erb

$('#subscribe').html("<%=j link_to 'Unsubscribe', subscriptions_path(feed_id: session[:read_random].last), method: :delete, remote: :true %>");

alter for destroy and there you have it!