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**Category:** rubyonrails-talk\
**Created:** [October 18, 2008, 10:21am UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/render-update-page-replace-html-problem/35479 "2008-10-18T10:21:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:**  [@11175](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/11175)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2008, 10:21am UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/render-update-page-replace-html-problem/35479/1 "2008-10-18T10:21:41Z")
Hi there,
I have this ajax problem, I'm desparately trying to debug since 1 entire day now:
The Controller includes:
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**Author:**  [@Frederick\_Cheung](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/Frederick_Cheung)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2008, 3:33pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/render-update-page-replace-html-problem/35479/2 "2008-10-18T15:33:08Z")
What's calling the action? If you've passed an :update option to link\_to\_remote (or remote\_function etc...) then you must not use render :update
Fred
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**Author:**  [@11175](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/11175)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2008, 3:55pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/render-update-page-replace-html-problem/35479/3 "2008-10-18T15:55:16Z")
Well, this is the form that calls the action (so there is no "remote\_" to the form or submit tag).
\<% form\_for (:cv, :url =\> '/user/cvs', :html =\> { :multipart =\> true }) do |f| %\> \ Upload A CV: \<%= f.file\_field :uploaded\_data %\> \<%= hidden\_field\_tag 'applicationfile\_id', @applicationfile.id %\> \ \ \<%= submit\_tag 'Save' %\> \ \<% end %\>
Everything gets uploaded correctly with it. But it doesn't update the page (the DIV/partial), but instead just displays the javascript code...
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**Author:**  [@Frederick\_Cheung](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/Frederick_Cheung)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2008, 4:02pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/render-update-page-replace-html-problem/35479/4 "2008-10-18T16:02:59Z")
> Well, this is the form that calls the action (so there is no "remote\_" to the form or submit tag).
If it's just a regular post (ie not using remote\_form\_for) you can't use render :update.
Fred
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**Author:**  [@11175](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/11175)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2008, 10:02pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/render-update-page-replace-html-problem/35479/5 "2008-10-18T22:02:41Z")
If you need this to be Ajaxified use remote\_form\_for instead, also check out: [http://www.caboo.se/articles/2007/4/2/ajax-file-upload](http://www.caboo.se/articles/2007/4/2/ajax-file-upload), as you're uploading file data.
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**Author:**  [@11175](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/11175)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 9:55pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/render-update-page-replace-html-problem/35479/6 "2008-10-20T21:55:05Z")
Thanks for the clarification and your hints, guys!