Rails and jQuery - how do you get server-side validation errors to your view after an ajax request
- by adam
Ive searched this site but questions are usually regarding doing client-side validations or for different frameworks.
I have a tasks list whose items can be edited inline. Upon submitting the inline edit form the item is updated all thanks to jQuery, ajax and rails.
But I want to handle bad input from the user. HTML requests redisplay the view and errors are displayed thanks to rails helpers.
But how do I insert that information after an ajax call?
Heres my update method in my controller
def update
@task = Task.find(params[:id])
respond_to do |format|
if @task.update_attributes(params[:task])
flash[:notice] = 'Task was successfully updated.'
format.html { redirect_to(@task) }
format.xml { head :ok }
format.js
else
format.html { render :action => "edit" }
format.xml { render :xml => @task.errors, :status => :unprocessable_entity }
#format.js ...hmmm... either go to js.erb file or do stuff inline
end
end
end
