Rails jquery mobile Routing/Rendering Issue

Question

I\'m following a tutorial http://fuelyourcoding.com/getting-started-with-jquery-mobile-rails-3/ transforming the views in a straightforward scaffolded Rails 3 application into a

Answer 1

jQuery Mobile loads pages via AJAX, adds them to the DOM, and then enhances them with all the jQuery Mobile styling. Because of this method of loading pages via AJAX, the source for the page does not change as a user navigates around the site.

To view the source code for the current page you need to refresh the webpage.

I recommend reading the jQuery Mobile Documentation for AJAX Navigation: http://jquerymobile.com/demos/1.0rc2/docs/pages/page-navmodel.html

Answer 2

Add this to your layout. It forces the browser cache to update the URL.

<div data-role="page" id="home" data-url="<%= request.path %>">