rendering a partial for AJAX response

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Hi all! I want to have an action to process an AJAX request. Naturally, it is good to render a partial as the response. The problem is, Rails supposes all actions to end with render :action otherwise it automatically renders the default action. How to cancel such behaviour and make it happy with just rendering the partial and finishing?

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Damian Terentyev wrote:

I want to have an action to process an AJAX request. Naturally, it is good to render a partial as the response. The problem is, Rails supposes all actions to end with render :action otherwise it automatically renders the default action. How to cancel such behaviour and make it happy with just rendering the partial and finishing?

This requires the view to call a wrapper that calls Ajax.Request, not Ajax.Response, but that's just my preference:

render :update => do |page|    page.replace_html 'my_div', :partial => 'my_partial' end

Ajax! The Guilty Pleasure of Rails!!