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Hey Guys, first post here.

I am running into some basic problems. I am trying to submit a form in a popup window and if the object saves close the popup window and refresh the page in the main window.

Has anyone done this, or know a good way to do this?

Sorry for such a stupid question, but I have ran around in circles trying to do this.

Thanks

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The best way to do it, in my mind, is to use an rjs template. In
your controller, your action would look something like this:

def my_action    # do usefull stuff.    ...

     render :update do | page |         if @something.save             page << "myCloseWindowJavaScript()"         else             page << "notifyUserOfError()"         end      end end

where myCloseWindowJavaScript() and notifyUserOfError are javascript
functions you define in a .js file. You can also look at the
documentation for
ActionView::Helpers::PrototypeHelper::JavaScriptGenerator::GeneratorMeth ods

http://api.rubyonrails.org/files/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/ action_view/helpers/prototype_helper_rb.html