problems with render :update in controller on winXP

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1.8.6, Rails 2.0.2 on winxp. using webrick.

When I attempt to render RJS inline in the controller using render :update, it fails horribly. none of the prototype helpers work; each spits out the generated javascript to the screen. If i call the same prototype function in a script tag in the view, sans RJS, it works perfectly. I've ran rake to update the js and verified the versions by hand, and starting now to trace this back through the rails source. The only output to the client is the javascript; it even has the correct content type in the headers.

could this be a bug somehow with the windows one-click packages? i didn't have any issues on my mac with 1.8.6 and 2.0.2. I know RJS is finicky with syntax errors - this is a very isolated and standard example on a new rails project. none of my RoR 1.2 code imported at all from older projects, which were heavy on inline RJS. Appreciate any insight.

#controller class HomeController < ApplicationController

def index     render :update do |page|       page.insert_html :top, 'test' , "<li>this list</li>"    end end

#view <div id="test"> </div>

#layout <html>   <head>     <%= stylesheet_link_tag 'home' %>     <%= javascript_include_tag :defaults %>   </head> <body> <%= yield :layout %>

</body> </html>

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1.8.6, Rails 2.0.2 on winxp. using webrick.

When I attempt to render RJS inline in the controller using render :update, it fails horribly. none of the prototype helpers work; each spits out the generated javascript to the screen. If i call the same prototype function in a script tag in the view, sans RJS, it works perfectly. I've ran rake to update the js and verified the versions by hand, and starting now to trace this back through the rails source. The only output to the client is the javascript; it even has the correct content type in the headers.

could this be a bug somehow with the windows one-click packages? i didn't have any issues on my mac with 1.8.6 and 2.0.2. I know RJS is finicky with syntax errors - this is a very isolated and standard example on a new rails project. none of my RoR 1.2 code imported at all from older projects, which were heavy on inline RJS. Appreciate any insight.

Are you just going to home/index ? In which case it's normal that the
rjs is just dumped in the view - it's only ever going to be executed
if the request was made by link_to_remote, remote_form_for etc... If you want to generate a script tag then use javascript_tag (you can
use update_page to generate the actual javascript)

Fred