Rails and modal jquery dialog form

Question

I\'m new to using jquery modal dialog boxes with rails and was wondering how I can :

1. show a jquery modal dialog box with 1 field (eg \"title\")
2. post t

Answer 1

For modal box I use jQuery Tools.

Once you set that up, next step is to bind an ajax request when the form is submitted (eg: form.submit(function(){ $.post... })) and post the form's data to controller.

Third step is setting up your Rails controller to respond to ajax request (using respond_to block) and render something as response (probably using :layout => false).

If validation failed, you will replace content of your modal box with this response body, or if successful (let's say response was just head :ok), you will display a success message.

I hope this makes sense to you.