[Rails 3.2] form_tag w :remote => true doesn't fire up the js format

[Erwin]

I have a form_tag written like this :

= form_tag search_backoffice_places_path, {:remote =>"true", :id => :searchplaceForm } do

 ..  input fields

 = submit_tag t(:search)

generated html is correct :

<form accept-charset="UTF-8" action="/en/backoffice/places/search" data-remote="true" id="searchplaceForm" method="post">

...  input fields

<input  id="searchplace" name="commit" type="submit" value="Search" />

</form>

upon submit, params  received in  backoffice/places_controller#search

{"utf8"=>"✓", "country"=>"United", "city"=>"*", "street_address"=>"*", "wording"=>"*", "commit"=>"Search", "action"=>"search", "controller"=>"backoffice/places", "locale"=>"en"}

backoffice/places_controller.rb

  respond_to :html, :js

 ..

  def search

     ... params received

    @places = Place.in_country_like(@country).in_city_like(@city)...... # @places found 1

   

    respond_to do |format|

      format.html { render :index }  

      format.js { }   <=  should render  search.js.erb BUT not ... 

    end

  end

what's could be wrong ?  thanks for feedback   ( using asset pipeline )

 

[Colin Law]

Can you post the full log for the action (as in log/development.log).

Colin

[Erwin]

[SOLVED]  Thanks Colin for pointing me to the log .. 

( test.log.. as I am testing integration w Capybara + Selenium... =>  my eyes were looking at something else ..)

I was looking the old way .. =>  a :format js ... parameter...

in non obtrusive way , the log clearly state  "Processing... as JS"

and rendering   search.js.erb at the bottom ...

so my Selenium driver is working fine ... which was not so easy to fix when working with subdomains....

Started POST "/en/backoffice/places/search" for 127.0.0.1 at 2012-11-29 15:12:05 +0100

Processing by Backoffice::PlacesController#search as JS

  Parameters: {"utf8"=>"✓", "country"=>"United", "city"=>"*", "street_address"=>"*", "wording"=>"*", "commit"=>"Search", "locale"=>"en"}

.....

  [1m [35mSubdomain Load (0.5ms) [0m  SELECT `subdomains`.* FROM `subdomains` WHERE `subdomains`.`name` = 'www' AND `subdomains`.`locale` = 'en' LIMIT 1

  [1m [36mCACHE (0.0ms) [0m   [1mSELECT `places`.* FROM `places` INNER JOIN `geolocations` ON `geolocations`.`place_id` = `places`.`id` WHERE (geolocations.country LIKE '%United%') ORDER BY created_at DESC LIMIT 5 OFFSET 0 [0m

  [1m [35m (153.3ms) [0m  SELECT DATABASE() as db

  [1m [36mGeolocation Load (0.5ms) [0m   [1mSELECT `geolocations`.* FROM `geolocations` WHERE `geolocations`.`place_id` = 1 LIMIT 1 [0m

...

  Rendered backoffice/places/_place.html.haml (20.7ms)

  Rendered backoffice/places/_list.html.haml (199.2ms)

  Rendered backoffice/places/search.js.erb (202.7ms)

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