Question

This should be an easy question for anyone who has served a rails partial via jquery.
This line of code:

$('div#status-chg-form').html('<%= escape_javascript(render(:partial => statusform)) %>').dialog('open');

is part of a script to serve a partial in a modal dialog. When the dialog pops up I get only a literal string inside that reads:

<%= escape_javascript(render(:partial => statusform, :remote => true)) %>

This is rails 3.1.

(edited to add:)

   $(rails_partial = "<%= escape_javascript(render(:partial => statusform)) %>");
   $('div#status-chg-form').append(rails_partial).dialog('open');

I have also tried the above to pass the html as a string, thinking there was some problem with the way jquery was processing this. Still doesn’t work.

Answer 1

It looks as if your code is not being processed as erb prior to be sent out to the client.

I’d recommend reviewing this Railscast:

“Railscast 136 – JQuery”

It will walk you through exactly how to do what you’re having an issue with.