Combining Erb and RJS

rubyonrails-talk
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Heres the thing. I want to render a page with standard .rhtml and I want to do some RJS style effects on the same page.

Inline RJS doesnt work. I cant do a render :rjs

Obviously I know it can be done... simple example of what I want to do is what basecamp does... on adding a message, it does a visual_effect on the new message.

What am I missing?

Rajesh

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You can use the Scriptaculous helpers:

http://api.rubyonrails.com/classes/ActionView/Helpers/ScriptaculousHelper.html

to put raw JavaScript for visual effects straight into your RHTML templates:

<%= visual_effect(...) %>

You'll want to wrap this code in <script>...</script> tags, or put it in an onload, or something like that.

Chris

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Thanks Chris... peach.

Rajesh