load partial with jquery and rails

Question

Im curious about what the best way to load a rails partial with jquery. So far I have tried a solution not working:

$(\'#imagecontent\').load(\'/newsletters/         


        

Answer 1

With rails 3 you could do...

controller

@content = '/some/partial'

view - either haml.erb(html.erb) or js.erb

$('#myDiv').html("<%= escape_javascript render @content %>");

You could try this if rails 2 (only prototype available unless noConflict added)...

In the controller

@content = render :partial=>"/users/cool_partial"

Call your js

myFunction(#{@content.to_json})

Your function...

myFunction = function(content){

    $("myDiv").html(content);

}

I do agree with neutrino that this could be better handled via an action.

def get_partial
  render 'some/partial'
end

Hope this helps