Render html instead of JSON from JavaScript

Question

I'm using the jQuery FullCalendar plugin with Ruby on Rails, and now I want to show the event details in a jquery dialog when you click on an event in the calendar. I have this in my controller EventsController

  # GET /events/1
  # GET /events/1.xml
  def show
    @event = Event.find(params[:id])

    respond_to do |format|
      format.html # show.html.erb
      format.xml  { render :xml => @event }
      format.js { render :json => @event.to_json }
    end
  end

which works as intended if I visit the url /events/1 for example. Then I see the form generated in app/views/events/show.html.erb. However, in my calendar.js where I'm trying to GET that form and insert it into my dialog div with this code:

    // http://arshaw.com/fullcalendar/docs/mouse/eventClick/
    eventClick: function(event, jsEvent, view){
      $.get('/events/' + event.id, function(data, text, jqXhr) {
          eventdialog.html(data);
          eventdialog.dialog("open");
      });
    },

'data' only contains the JSON-data. Sorry if this is a nooby question, but i've tried googling for hours now but I can't seem to find what i'm looking for. Using RoR 3.2.2.

There are a good few links available on Google. beebole.com/pure/documentation/get-started — Anand Shah
– Anand Shah, Commented Mar 6, 2012 at 10:28

gayavat · Accepted Answer · 2012-03-06 10:24:35Z

1

Last line should be like format.js { render :partial => 'event' }

answered Mar 6, 2012 at 10:24

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2 Comments

cakism Over a year ago

Thanks for the answer, it didn't work though. I got this error from the server: ActionView::MissingTemplate (Missing partial events/event, application/event with {:handlers=>[:erb, :coffee, :builder], :formats=>[:js, :html], :locale=>[:en]}. Searched in: * "/home/cakism/railscode/calendar/app/views" ): app/controllers/events_controller.rb:29:in show' app/controllers/events_controller.rb:26:in show'

gayavat Over a year ago

This is a example. Error says you should implement '_event.html.erb' file. I thought you already have this file. Try {render :template => 'show'} or {render :template => 'show', :layout => false} in this case, only html from 'show.html.erb' will be sent.

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