How to call a rails method from in jQuery

Question

I have this JQuery code:

$(\"p.exclamation, div#notification_box\").live(\"mouseover\", function() {

    });

and I want to call this rails

Answer 1

It's good that you have that model code. We'll need to add a new action and make sure your route is setup. If you're using resources you'll have to add collection or member. Since you're doing an update I would choose PUT as the http method.

Here's an example route:

resources :user_notifications do
  collection do
    put 'render_read'
  end
end

Go ahead and add the render_read action to your controller.

Your jQuery code will look something like this:

$("p.exclamation, div#notification_box").live("mouseover", function() {   
  $.ajax({
    url: "/user_notifications/render_read",
    type: 'PUT'
  });
});