Working With Rails

Hi there,

I’m currently working on a page that relies heavily on AJAX. Apart from the main area, most content opens up in one popup window (a div), i.e. the same div is used for all contents.
As a result, it would be best if controllers could just replace the content of the div with the full contents of a template like this:

respond_to do |format|
  format.js do
    render :update do |page|
      page[:popup].replace_html :template => "customers/index.html.erb" 
    end
  end
end

The reason I don’t want to put this in a partial is that I use the same templates as a fallback for users that have javascript disabled.

Unfortunately, this doesn’t seem to work because Rails doesn’t recognize the :template option with :update. As soon as I replace it with a :partial option, everything works smoothly. Before trying this approach, I had link_to_remote with an :update option, but I don’t like this for various reasons – mostly, because it bloats my controllers with conditionals.

Does anyone have a suggestion what I should do? I’m open to code changes, too, if you think that helps.

Cheers,
- Clemens