Did you ever find a solution for this? I have the same problem: I need something like a "call_remote" function.
I've put:
render :update do |page| page.call 'scroll', 0, 0 page.replace_html :campaign_errors, "ERRORS TEST" end
into an action executed in response to a GET request and got back the expected text/html response:
try { scroll(0, 0); Element.update("campaign_errors", "ERRORS TEST" ); } catch (e) { alert('RJS error:\n\n' + e.toString()); alert('scroll(0, 0);\nElement.update(\"campaign_errors\", \"ERRORS TEST"\");'); throw e }
displayed, as expected, as text in the browser.
The question seems to boil down to how to call render :update in a xhr request that returns text/javascript for execution by the browser?
Any ideas about this?
