Rails update.js.erb not executing javascript

Question

I am building a form in rails that will edit an existing question via ajax.

After the form is submitted and the question has been updated, the update method in the c

Answer 1

Do you work with haml, or html.erb? If the former, then this might be the solution:

respond_to do |format|
  ...
  format.js {render layout: false}
end

I had the exact same problem, found this question early on, took another hour or so of Googling to find this question on StackOverflow that led me to it: jQuery + Ajax + Haml. js.erb files not firing