What's a good plugin or guide I can use to create javascript widgets from a Rails App?
- by nicosuria
I've been looking around for a while now and the best guide I've seen so far is Dr Nic's DIY widgets how to (here).
I haven't been able to make something like this work:
Assuming this is my widget code:
<script src="http://mysite/nomnoms.js"> </script>
And my nomnoms controller looks like (assume that the list partial exists and simply lists down a link to the show page of each nomnom in the @nomnoms variable):
class NomnomsController < ApplicationController
def index
@nomnoms = Nomnom.find(:all)
@content = render_to_string(:partial => 'list')
end
end
And in the index.js of my nomnoms_controller I have:
page << "document.write('<div>'"
page << "document.write('#{@content.to_json}')"
page << "</div>"
The above setup doesn't render anything :(. But when I change the second line of index.js to:
page << "document.write('nomnoms should be here')
...the widget renders the text. Any help or even a point in the right direction would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
