Responds To Parent plugin

Plugin details

Adds responds_to_parent to your controller to respond to the parent document of your page. Make Ajaxy file uploads by posting the form to a hidden iframe, and respond with RJS to the parent window.

Websitehttp://github.com/markcatley/responds_to_parent/tree/master Repositorygit://github.com/markcatley/responds_to_parent.git LicenseUnknown

Documentation

Install the plugin: 
ruby script/plugin install git://github.com/markcatley/responds_to_parent.git

Example
=======

Controller: 

  class Test < ActionController::Base
    def main
    end
 
    def form_action
      # Do stuff with params[:uploaded_file]
        
      responds_to_parent do
        render :update do |page|
          page << "alert($('stuff').innerHTML)"
        end
      end
    end
  end



main.rhtml: 

  html
    body
      div id="stuff"Here is some stuff/div
 
      form target="frame" action="form_action"
        input type="file" name="uploaded_file"/
        input type="submit"/
      /form
 
      iframe id='frame' name="frame" /iframe
    body
  html


Further Documentation

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