Rails turbolinks break submit remote form

Question

I\'m having a rather weird problem using Rails 4, Turbolinks and a remote form. I have a form looking like:

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Answer 1

Turbolinks don't fully reload your page, but only part of it. This is what makes them so fast, however if you have JavaScript requiring a full page reload you will run into trouble. The reason it does work with a refresh is because now you force the page to fully reload.

Edit: This gem might be worth trying out: https://github.com/kossnocorp/jquery.turbolinks

For a little bit of extra information about the inner workings of turbolinks: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/working_with_javascript_in_rails.html#turbolinks

Or: https://github.com/rails/turbolinks

P.s. Also make sure the javascript_include_tag is within the head tag (and not in the body)