AJAX in Rails: Show model#new form after completing a model#update

Question

I have an account setup wizard in Rails in which I\'m showing a list of companies. When a company\'s details are updated via AJAX, everything works perfectly. However, after a s

Answer 1

Yea, using ajax is a good thing to do in this case. As posted, a company's details are successfully updated via ajax.

What you can do is render a json in update action if the current update is successful, and pass the new form as json.

def update
    @company = Company.find(params[:id])
    respond_to do |format|
    if @company.update_attributes(params[:company])
      format.json { render json: { success: true, html: render_to_string('_form.html.slim', layout: false) } }
      format.html { redirect_to @company, notice: 'Company was successfully updated.' }
    else
      ...

You can access the json in your js and replace the current form element.

$('#company_form').live 'ajax:success', (event,data) ->
    $('#current_company_form').html(data.html) if(data.success == true)

Let me know if this helps.