rails 4 bootstrap 3 ajax modal

Question

I\'m busy learning Rails 4 and I would like to display a bootstrap popup modal when a user clicks on a link, when the modal opens it needs to show the information relating to th

Answer 1

Have a try with another way. In this way, we are going to show the modal popup using explicit javascript command.

In index.html.erb

<%= link_to "view", work_path(w), remote: true, class: 'static-popup-link'%>

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In application.js

$(document).ready(function() {

  var clickOnPopupLink = function(){
    $('body').on('click', '.static-popup-link', function(){
      $('#myModal').modal('show');
    });
  }

  clickOnPopupLink();

});

In controller

def show
  @work = Work.find(params[:id])
end

In show.js.erb

$('#myModal').html("<%= j render("/works/modal")%>")