I am currently using a blog site using Ruby on Rails. Each "Mail" has some comments. Currently, I am only uploading the last 5 comments, but I want to implement a hyperlink that will load the rest of the comments. Unfortunately, with my current implementation, all I get is a bunch of unnecessary pluses.
Before
Comments
Posted 7 minutes ago
New
Posted 1 day ago
Comment 3
Posted 1 day ago
Comment 2
Posted 1 day ago
Comment 1
Posted 1 day ago
This is a new comment
View more comments
After clicking the "View Comments" button
Comments
try { Element.insert("comments", { bottom: "
\n
\n Posted 1 day ago\n
\n Comment 2\n
\n
" }); Element.insert("comments", { bottom: "
\n
\n Posted 1 day ago\n
\n Comment 3\n
\n
" }); Element.insert("comments", { bottom: "
\n
\n Posted less than a minute ago\n
\n New\n
\n
" }); Element.hide("morecomments"); } catch (e) { alert('RJS error:\n\n' + e.toString()); alert('Element.insert(\"comments\", { bottom: \"
\\n
\\n Posted 1 day ago\\n
\\n Comment 2\\n
\\n
\" });\nElement.insert(\"comments\", { bottom: \"
\\n
\\n Posted 1 day ago\\n
\\n Comment 3\\n
\\n
\" });\nElement.insert(\"comments\", { bottom: \"
\\n
\\n Posted less than a minute ago\\n
\\n New\\n
\\n
\" });\nElement.hide(\"morecomments\");'); throw e }
The message show.html.erb has:
<div id="morecomments">
<%= link_to_remote "View more comments", :url=>{:action=>'morecomments',:post_id=>@post.id},:update=>'comments' %>
</div>
My message controller has
def morecomments
@post = Post.find(params[:post_id])
@comments = @post.comments.values_at(Range.new(5, @post.comments.size-1))
respond_to do |format|
format.html {redirect_to @post.comments}
format.js
end
end
And finally, my morecomments.js.rjs:
@comments.each do |p|
page.insert_html :bottom, :comments, :partial => p
end
page.hide 'morecomments'
I'm really new to Rails, and I really don't know what all meta-magic rails do in the background. Any help would be awesome.
Thank!