render a partial on buttonclick?

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I currently have a link to a Login screen, but its a separate page althogether. I have created a partial that is just the login box and password, and would like that partial to appear at a place on the page when the user clicks the link. Anyone know where I can find out how to do this?

Thanks so much.

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You use link_to_remote instead of link_to… then you have the destination be a controller that just renders your partial and puts the result in that div. Pretty easy actually.

<%= link_to_remote "Delete this post", :update => "login_form",

    :url => { :action => "show_login_form", :controller=>"login" } %>

  <div id="login_form">
  </div>

Then in your controller, assuming you have a partial at app/views//login/_form.rhtml you just do

displays the login form partial… used by an AJAX request

def show_login_form render :partial=>“login/form” end

You can do a lot more cool stuff though… There’s a really good O’Reilly shortcut on RJS, but sadly I forget what it’s called… I think it’s RJS Templates for Rails or something. Quality read, and helps you get started quite quickly.

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oh wow that does sound easy, I'm gonna try it out. I'll respond on how it works out... Thanks so much!

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Ok so some of it worked, but not all of it. I have the partial "app/ views/login/_login_small.rhtml" that has this:

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What’s your controller’s action look like that does the rendering?

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Use a link_to_remote for the link. In the action it calls,

render :page do page[:id_of_place_on_page].replace(:partial => 'path_to_partial') end

don't forget to setup the variables used in the partial in the action
as well.

Niels

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Couldn't you also do this in your controller?

# displays the login form partial... used by an AJAX request def show_login_form    render :partial=>"login/form", :layout => false end

So it wouldn't render the layout for that action?

Jacqui

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Here is my action:

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I'm looking for the same effect as http://www.digg.com when you click login...