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Ruby Build a Simple Ruby on Rails Application Frontend Development Installing Twitter Bootstrap

Posted by Scott Wilcox
Scott Wilcox
9,517 Points

link_to, <%= yield %>, and javascript

The page I am working on has a set header, footer, nav, and display containers.

I am currently using this javascript to load links into the main content div without reloading the entire page.

// Loads external subpages to the div id="mainContent" on a href="" mouse click

$(document).ready(function(){ $('a').click(function(e){ e.preventDefault(); $("#mainContent").load($(this).attr('href')); }); });

can this be used with the link_to and only have the "yield" tag in that container div?

1 Answer

Seth Reece
Seth Reece
32,867 Points
Seth Reece
Seth Reece
32,867 Points

I'm not an expert, but it seems to me this should work. As long as Ruby is building a div with the right class or id, JavaScript should be able to target it. Essentially, when Ruby loads on a server, it compiles your code into html that the browser can read.