RJS renders ... sometimes

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I've googled around for a solution for this, but no luck.

I have a simple form. It submits to a controller. The controller action passes through to an .rjs template. The page is updated and all is well.

I wanted to disable the button because people were double submitting, so I used:   :disable_with => 'Adding'

The button is disabled when I click on it.

However, my rjs now comes back as text and is rendered in the browser instead of being rendered as page updates. Content-Type: text/javascript; is correct, so the .rjs is being picked up fine.

Any ideas on what to check next? I'm using Mongrel 1.0.1 with rails 1.2.3 (same error on 1.1.6, too).

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It may be because I'm not very clever, but to get to the same result, I've always coded something like this:

<span id="submit"> <%= submit_tag "submit" :onclick="$('submit').hide()" %> </span>

It's not nearly as terse as your code, but it gets the job done and may solve your issue. When I was getting the results you described, it was because I had forgotted to add the javascript_include_tag :defaults to my layout.

good luck, Bryce

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Bryce:   Your solution works great! Thanks for the pointer.

For posterity, I actually used this: <%= submit_tag "Add Comment", :class => 'submit', :id => 'submit_button', :onclick => "$('submit_button').hide()" %>

The key thing being "id" and $(...) have to match.

  -- Wes

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Glad that worked out for you. I had tried the :id => 'something' without a lot of success in the past. I guess I should give it another go.

You don't know anything about rake tasks do you? http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk/browse_thread/thread/68f64e3baaf43df3