In place editing in rails

Nina Jansen — Tue, 13 May 2008 17:06:01 +0000

So basically, the official plugin is old and cant really deal with restful routing. For some reason, when I used the url_for method in my views, the in place editor javascript function couldn’t interpret the (restful) route properly and sent a post request to ‘/controller/1/edit’ to an action named “1″ with an id set to “edit”, which obviously didn’t do anything useful. So instead I called the in place editor script in the following manner (I’m using haml btw.):

%span{:id => "name", :class => "in_place_editor_field"}= @user.name = in_place_editor "name", {:url => '/user/edit/' + @user.id.to_s, :rows => 1, :size => 32 }

So basically I hard coded the route so it would fall back on standard routing. Yes I know that:

This is ugly as sin
I’m supposed to do a PUT request to a function named update, not a post request to a function named edit.

But it solved the problem.

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In place editing in rails