Ajax.Updater & Only get, put, and delete requests are allowed.

[brianp]

Hey everyone,

I'm using the Ajax tabs method/example seen at: http://actsasflinn.com/Ajax_Tabs/index.html

It renders partials without a problem but when I need it to render
from :controller => 'manage', :action => 'new' I receive:

ActionController::MethodNotAllowed
Only get, put, and delete requests are allowed.

/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.2/lib/action_controller/
routing/recognition_optimisation.rb:64:in `recognize_path'
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.2/lib/action_controller/
routing/route_set.rb:437:in `recognize'
/Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.2/lib/action_controller/
routing/route_set.rb:432:in `call'

running rake routes I can see:
GET /manage/new(.:format)
{:controller=>"manage", :action=>"new"}

and if I access the page on it's own (root/manage/new) everything
works fine.

Any recommendations on how to get the desired content loaded?

thanks,
bp

[Jeffrey L. Taylor]

Quoting brianp <brian.o...@gmail.com>:
> Hey everyone,
>
> I'm using the Ajax tabs method/example seen at: http://actsasflinn.com/Ajax_Tabs/index.html
>
> It renders partials without a problem but when I need it to render
> from :controller => 'manage', :action => 'new' I receive:
>
> ActionController::MethodNotAllowed
> Only get, put, and delete requests are allowed.
>

The AJAX code is making a POST request. Change the routing to allow POSTs or
change the template or RJS to make a GET request (probably add ':method =>
:get') to parameter list. If the action does not alter the state, use the
former, otherwise use the latter. E.g., is it okay if a search engine spider
invokes the 'new' action? From the name, I'd guess not. So change the
routing to allow or even require POST requests.

HTH,
Jeffrey

[brianp]

Hey Jeffery,

thanks for the quick reply.

I had a good feeling it was trying to make a post request.

I did try changing the :method => :post but this actually chokes the
method altogether. I get no response at all.

And the other option for changing my routing I'm not sure I know how
to do.

My manage related routes are currently:
map.resources :manage
map.resources :manage, :collection => { :available => :get }

How would I go about forcing :new to be :post ?

i tried something like:
map.resources :manage, :collection => { :new => :post } but this caues
the sever now to run.

On Nov 26, 12:57 am, "Jeffrey L. Taylor" <r...@abluz.dyndns.org>
wrote:

[Jeffrey L. Taylor]

Brian,

You are running into Rails/RESTful convention. In those conventions, the
new action is a GET that returns the form for a new object. The create action
expects a POST with the data for the new object. If this is not the semantics
of your app or controller, either don't use 'map.resources' which does conform
to the Rails/RESTful way, or change your actions and routes.

So what does your 'new' action do?

Jeffrey

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[brianp]

The 'new' action creates 3 empty models and displays the form to fill
in the properties for the 3 new objects (all from 1 form).

Create is followed from new to save the objects to the db etc via post
as expected.

So I suppose the best idea would be to find a way to make the
Ajax.Updater run via :get instead of :post. So I may keep my proper
RESTful resources.

The script for the Ajax.updater is:

function reloadPane(pane, src) {
new Ajax.Updater(pane, src, {asynchronous:1, evalScripts:true,
onLoading:function(request){pane.innerHTML='<img alt="Wait" src="/
images/spinner.gif" style="vertical-align:-3px" /> Loading...'}})
}

method:'delete'

I tried using:
function reloadPane(pane, src) {
new Ajax.Updater(pane, src, {asynchronous:1, evalScripts:true,
method:delete, onLoading:function(request){pane.innerHTML='<img
alt="Wait" src="/images/spinner.gif" style="vertical-align:-3px" />
Loading...'}})
}

This didn't work but just now I found an example with:
method:'delete' . Maybe the lack of quotes is what killed the script.
I'll try that as soon as I get home and post back.

Thanks for the help Jeffrey!

On Nov 26, 9:49 am, "Jeffrey L. Taylor" <r...@abluz.dyndns.org> wrote:
> Brian,
>
> You are running into Rails/RESTful convention.  In those conventions, the
> new action is a GET that returns the form for a new object.  The create action
> expects a POST with the data for the new object.  If this is not the semantics
> of your app or controller, either don't use 'map.resources' which does conform
> to the Rails/RESTful way, or change your actions and routes.
>
> So what does your 'new' action do?
>
> Jeffrey
>

[Jeffrey L. Taylor]

Brian,
Sounds good.

Jeffrey

[brianp]

And for anyone following this thread with the same problem, by
method:'delete' i mean method:'get' lol I copy & pasted from an
example.

On Nov 26, 10:28 am, "Jeffrey L. Taylor" <r...@abluz.dyndns.org>
wrote:
> Brian,
>   Sounds good.
>
> Jeffrey

[brianp]

function reloadPane(pane, src) {
new Ajax.Updater(pane, src, {method:'get', asynchronous:1,

evalScripts:true, onLoading:function(request){pane.innerHTML='<img

alt="Wait" src="/images/spinner.gif" style="vertical-align:-3px" />
Loading...'}})
}

Makes the function work like desired. Now i just have to change my
render layout so it doesn't load the entire page layout inside the
container =)