I've been all over the place plugging different things into this process and I still get no results.
Sometimes I get the infamous extra "<" error, sometimes absolutely nothing happens, and I'm not sure if this is the problem but I think Google developer is showing that the current page is being sent as the json file I'm asking for and not the json I'm sending (see later). This is what I see in google developer:
Which is definitly NOT my json file:
In any case, this is my javascript:
$('#q_name_cont').autocomplete({
url: "autocomplete/items",
dataType: 'json'
});
This is my route:
get 'autocomplete/items' => 'home#autocomplete_items', :defaults=>{:format=>'json'}
Controller Action (commented out part is another method I was trying for a while):
def autocomplete_items
# respond_to do |format|
# format.js {render 'autocomplete_items'}
#products = Item.all.order(:name)
respond_to do |format|
format.html
format.json {
render json: #products.map {|item| item.name}
}
end
end
Before I was using mapping, I was using this view for the render:
{
"items": [
<%Item.all.each do |i|%>
{ "<%=i.name%>","<%=i.name%>" },
<%#end%>
{ "value": "", "data": "" }
]
}
I've really been all over the place, trying for a very long time to get this to work. What am I missing?
IIRC, Your url and dataType options just do not exist in autocomplete's documentation. You could try source option instead:
$('#q_name_cont').autocomplete({
source: function (request, response) {
$.ajax({
url: "/autocomplete/items", // should be with '/'
dataType: 'json',
data: { query: request.term },
success: function(data) {
// call response to return the result to autocomplete box
response(data);
}
});
}
});
Of course, this is just for showing up all items, if you want to filter like real autocomplete box, you should modify controller to filter the result base on query:
def autocomplete_items
#products = Item.all.order(:name)
respond_to do |format|
format.html
format.json {
render json: #products
.where('name ILIKE ?', "%#{params[:query]}%")
.pluck(:name)
}
end
end
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I'm trying to create a jackpot betting site (just as a challenge). I have a method in my controller to update the pot when a user adds money to the pot. I display the pot total on the homepage and would like to update it with Ajax as soon as someone adds money to the pot. I'm using the gon gem to pass variables such as the pot total from my controller to my javascript. It works when the page is reloaded but not when the update method is called with ajax.
Heres my PagesController:
def home
#jackpot = Jackpot.last
gon.pot = #jackpot.pot
end
JackpotsController:
def update
#jackpot = Jackpot.find(params[:id])
if params.has_key?(:amount)
#jackpot.update(pot: #jackpot.pot + params[:amount].to_f)
gon.pot = #jackpot.pot
end
respond_to do |format|
format.js
end
end
Javascript: (In the url the :id is hardcoded for now)
$("#bet-btn").click(function() {
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: "/jackpot/update/21",
datatype: "json",
success: function() {
console.log("Pot size: " + gon.pot);
updatePot();
},
error: function() {
console.log("error")
}
});
});
This updates the donut progress bar for the pot
function updatePot() {
updateDonutChart('#jackpot-donut', gon.pot , true);
}
Button to place bet: (amount also hardcoded)
<%= link_to "Place Bet", update_pot_path(#jackpot, :amount =>
0.1), method: :post,:remote => true, id: "bet-btn", class: "btn btn-info btn-lg" %>
I'm pretty new to rails and especially javascript/ajax so any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
In the controller, simply respond to JSON:
respond_to do |format|
format.json { render json: { pot: #jackpot.pot } }
end
Specify the dataType when posting with $.ajax. Notice that the new data is bieng passed to the success function, so it's not gon.pot, but data.pot.
$.ajax({
dataType: "json",
url: url,
data: data,
success: function(data) {
console.log('pot', data.pot);
}
});
I am building a single-page-app with rails and client-side javascript. To dynamically manage the interface, I need to trigger a callback after the login form view (loginForm.html.erb) is returned (for user authentication via Bcrypt). I've tried jquery $.ajax requests, and can get the form OR the json responses but not both.
Here's the request to get the login form:
loginMenuEl.on("click", function(event){
event.preventDefault();
$.ajax({
url: "http://localhost:3000/login",
type: "GET",
dataType: "json"
}).done(function(jsonData) {
self.initLoginButton();
self.processContent(jsonData);
}).fail(function(){
console.log("*** ajax fail L1 ***");
});
});
Here are the relavent routes:
get "/login" => "sessions#login"
get "/loginForm" => "sessions#loginForm"
get "/login_attempt" => "sessions#login_attempt"
post "/login_attempt" => "sessions#login_attempt"
Here is the Sessions controller that processes the form and json:
def login
#contentInfo = Content.find_by_id(1)
respond_to do |format|
format.html { render :loginForm }
format.json { render json: #contentInfo }
end
end
I've tried other versions of the respond_to block but the form never returns:
format.html { redirect_to (:action => 'loginForm') }
format.html { redirect_to (action: 'loginForm') }
format.html { redirect_to action: 'loginForm' }
format.json { render json: #contentInfo }
Am I correct to believe that rails can return both json and a view file (loginForm.html.erb)
I'm trying to do a form submission through AJAX in Rails and I am not too sure what is wrong here. I got everything to work using "remote: true" but I want to gain a better understanding of how the AJAX works with jQuery. This is my javascript code:
$(document).ready(function(){
$("#new_user_friendship").on("submit", function(event){
event.preventDefault();
var friendId = $("#user_friendship_friend_id").val();
var _this = $(this);
$.ajax({
url: "/user_friendships",
data: _this.serialize(),
method: "POST",
dataType: "json",
success: function(data){
console.log(data);
friendButton.hide();
$(".friend-request-form").html("<p>Friend request sent</p>");
}
});
});
});
I am suspecting this line url: "/user_friendships/new?friend_id="+friendId containing the url is the culprit of my errors. I wrote this because a hidden field is being passed as a person's friend id but it throws a "404 error", I've also tried url: "/user_friendships" which doesn't return any errors but it also doesn't properly execute the Javascript as I expected.
This is the corresponding form_for that the AJAX request is sent to:
<div class="friend-request-form">
<%= form_for current_user.user_friendships.build(friend_id: #user), id: "new_user_friendship", method: :post do |f| %>
<%= f.hidden_field :friend_id, value: #user.id %>
<%= submit_tag "Send friend request", class: "button radius tiny", id: "friend-request-button" %>
<% end %>
</div>
What this form does is it sends a friend request to another user using a hidden field.
And in my user_friendships_controller.rb I have this code:
def create
if params[:user_friendship] && params[:user_friendship].has_key?(:friend_id)
#friend = User.find(params[:user_friendship][:friend_id])
#user_friendship = UserFriendship.request(current_user, #friend)
respond_to do |format|
if #user_friendship.new_record?
format.html do
flash[:error] = "There was a problem creating that friend request."
redirect_to user_path(#friend)
end
format.json {render json: #user_friendship.to_json, status: :precondition_failed}
else
format.html do
flash[:success] = "Friend request sent"
redirect_to user_path(#friend)
end
format.json {render json: #user_friendship.to_json, status: :precondition_failed}
end
end
else
flash[:error] = "Friend required"
redirect_to root_path
end
end
If anyone can provide any suggestions or feedback that'd be great!
UPDATE:
Now that I added in data: _this.serialize() and changed the url to: url: "/user_friendships" I'm now getting a 412 (Precondition Failed) error. Despite this error the data is actually being saved into the database. Does anyone know why I'm getting this 412 (Precondition Failed) error?
There is something I do not understand, with the dataType json, you said that you had a precondition failed status right ?
But you wrote
format.json {render json: #user_friendship.to_json, status: :precondition_failed}
So I don't think there is any problem, indeed, it seems to work fine, as you explicitly passed the status in your render command, try removing it and I think you will have a 200 (success) status instead.
Of course, you can keep the previous post ajax request, or use this short version
$.post(
/user_friendships',
{ user_friendship: { friend_id: friendId } },
function(){
console.log(data);
friendButton.hide();
$(".friend-request-form").html("<p>Friend request sent</p>");
},
'json')
Add a data attribute to the post params instead of passing it in the url:
$.ajax({
url: "/user_friendships",
data: { user_friendship: { friend_id: friendId } }, // <<< Updated
method: "POST",
dataType: "json",
success: function(data){
console.log(data);
friendButton.hide();
$(".friend-request-form").html("<p>Friend request sent</p>");
}
});
Update
The url should be /user_friendships, assuming that you're using RESTful actions. Have a look to this article about REST in Rails.
Also, when you do an AJAX request like this, your are not sending the rails authenticity tokens that are crated by the form helper. This may be the cause of your 412 (Precondition Failed) error.
See: Understanding the Rails Authenticity Token
I would like to post the result of an ajax request back to the same page that it was requested from. Here are the interacting parts:
AJAX in Jquery
var ids = 1
$(document).ready(function(){
$('#showbtn').on('click', function() {
$.ajax({
url: "http://localhost:3000/teamplayers.json",
data: {'resolution':ids},
type:"post",
dataType: "json",
cache: true,
success:function(){
$('#test3').val(1);
alert("test 3");
},
error: function(error) {
alert("Failed " + console.log(error) + " " + error)
}
});
});
});
This is supposed to set a variable here:
Teamplayer Controller
# GET /teamplayers
# GET /teamplayers.json
def index
#teamplayers = Teamplayer.all
#fteams = Fteam.all
#teamplayer2 = 1
tid = params[:resolution] <-It should set here per the data section above
#ids = tid
end
unfortunately it calls this section of the same controller
# POST /teamplayers
# POST /teamplayers.json
def create
#teamplayer = Teamplayer.new(teamplayer_params)
respond_to do |format|
if #teamplayer.save
format.html { redirect_to #teamplayer, notice: 'Teamplayer was successfully created.' }
format.json { render action: 'show', status: :created, location: #teamplayer }
else
format.html { render action: 'new' }
format.json { render json: #teamplayer.errors, status: :unprocessable_entity }
end
end
end
So what do I do to make it post to the same page.
You are POSTing the ajax, which means the create action will be hit, not the index action. You should be able to see this in your server log output when you hit the page.
If you want to hit the index action, you need to do an GET ajax request with the resolution data set so you can get the data you want.
Additionally, you probably maybe don't want to cache this ajax request if it is actually dynamic data, but it is up to you.
Edit from comments:
You need to add your parameter as a query string for a GET, not as generic "data".
Try something like this:
$.ajax({
url: "http://localhost:3000/teamplayers.json?resolution="+ids,
type:"GET",
dataType: "json",
success:function(){
$('#test3').val(1);
alert("test 3");
},
error: function(error) {
alert("Failed " + console.log(error) + " " + error)
}
});
});
Another edit from comments:
# GET /teamplayers
# GET /teamplayers.json
def index
#teamplayers = Teamplayer.all
#fteams = Fteam.all
#teamplayer2 = 1
tid = params.fetch(:resolution) { 0 } # make sure we got something
#ids = tid.to_i # coerce string param to integer
end
I send data in json format for counting visits. Problem is when i use back arrow in browser - results are send second, third ... and more times and there is one em tag for every click in back arrow on browser. What i can do to overwrite results but not sending second in new place.
My controller:
visits_count = current_user.visits.where(:read => false).count.to_i
respond_to do |format|
format.json { render :json => visits_count }
And my js:
function unread(){
$('#visits p').each( function() {
$.ajax({
url: '/visits/unread_count',
dataType: 'json',
success: function(data) {
if (data > 0) {
$('#visits p').append('<em>' + data +'</em>');
}
}
});
});
};
and my view:
<%= link_to 'visits', visits_path, :id => "visits" %><p></p></li>