HANDLEBARS-AJAX-NOTES.md

HANDLERBARS AND JS PROTOTYPES WITH RAILS AND AJAX

121318 [x]Hijack form with click event handler -on submit worked properly to prevent default

[x]Get data to submit form correctly

-Created low-level ajax request ($.ajax()) instead of ($.post()) to retrieve JSON back from Rails server -Use respond_to instead of redirect_to, dependent on HTML or JSON

[x]Get JSON object [x]Append to DOM

-Added handlebars_assets gem, not sure if it's the same thing as Handlebars, Github docs are informative -Created Handlebars template in script tag, not done yet

121418 -Still working on Handlebars [x]Need to build a template [x]Create template -Copy outerHTML from browser console -make generic(item_22 is now item_{{id}}) -in lists/show.html.erb

[x]Create variable to:

1. read the HTML from template
2. then convert it into a function that can render -Wrap this in document ready so that it properly loads

-Ran into issues with respond_to, JSON return and options -use .always instead of .success -create json holder

-Working with different options -Error in console regarding L22 of items.js

121819 -struggling to debug the Item.success issue!!! -json returns the object -json.responseText does return the ID, Description and list ID -response isn't defined

-in .js file, revert Submit function back to previous method -returned to .always function but still having same issues -moving forward for now, i MAY come back to this

-working on response still // json = JSON.parse(response) //the response is already a json object, doesn't make sense to parse it //where is response being defined //it is being chained on the .ajax call var item = new Item(json) //json is no longer defined

-moving on again!!!