Ruby on rails -- $.ajax doesn't work

Question

I know this code works fine, but when I put this code on my (ruby on rails) project it doesn't work.

    <script type="text/javascript">
     $.ajax({
          type: "POST",
          url: "http://www.mywebsite.com",
          data: { name: "John", location: "Boston" }
          }).done(function( msg ) {
          alert( "Data Saved: " + msg );
      });
    </script>

But it works when I replace $.ajax() by $.get()

$.get("/users/20.json", function(data)
      {
      }).done(function( msg ) {
          alert( "Data Saved: " + msg );
       });

Someone knows why on my (ruby on rails) project $.ajax doesn't work but $.get() works fine?

Also considering that get and post are complete different I'd assume you don't have the proper routes for POST. try $.ajax({..., type: 'GET',...}) — travis
– travis, Commented Jul 30, 2012 at 21:56

Jory Cunningham · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-30 21:55:27Z

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Is your routing restricting the processing to GET requests? That would explain "POST"-based queries (your first example) not working, while "GET" based ones do.

See http://guides.rubyonrails.org/routing.html for info on this...

You could try just changing the "type" option in your $.ajax function to be like this:

   <script type="text/javascript">
 $.ajax({
      type: "GET",
      url: "http://www.mywebsite.com",
      data: { name: "John", location: "Boston" }
      }).done(function( msg ) {
      alert( "Data Saved: " + msg );
  });
</script>

EDIT: Oops, saw you fixed this while I was typing it up. :)

answered Jul 30, 2012 at 21:55

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iblue · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-30 21:59:15Z

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The solution was to add:

dataType: "script"

edited Jul 30, 2012 at 21:59

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Anze Jarni · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-30 21:46:44Z

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I think you are using jQuery for this. Try replacing your jQuery with the latest version.

answered Jul 30, 2012 at 21:46

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