Passing instance variable to js.erb file (Rails 3 / jQuery)

neon picture neon · May 14, 2011 · Viewed 17.1k times · Source

I have an "index.html.erb" file with the following:

<%= render @users %>

This renders "_user.html.erb" and outputs a button for performing a certain action on each user:

<%= link_to "action", action_path(user), :id => "#{user.id}_action", :remote => true) %>

I've set up my User controller to respond to the AJAX request by looking at "action.js.erb".

In order to perform javascript methods on particular users within the partial, and I'd like to know how instance variables from my partial (such as user.id) can be passed into or accessed within the js.erb file, for instance:

$("#{@user.id}_action").toggle();

Answer

Magnar picture Magnar · May 14, 2011

You access the information in your *.js.erb-files just like in your *.html.erb-files, using @users or other instance variables declared in the controller:

$("#<%= @user.id %>_action").toggle();