Ruby on Rails and jeditable (jquery)

Question

Has anyone gotten the jquery plugin jeditable to run properly in a Rails applications. If so, could you share some hints on how to set it up? I'm having some trouble with creating the "submit-url".

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IIRC, you cannot simply call ruby code from within javascript (please let me be wrong:-). Do you mean RJS??? Isn't that limited to Prototype? I'm using jQuery.

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UPDATE:
uh.....asked this a while back and in the meantime switched to a different solution. But IIRC my main issue was the following:

I'm using the RESTful resources. So let's say I have to model a blog and thus have the resource "posts". If I want to edit a post (e.g. the post with the ID 8), my update is sent via HTTP to the URL http://my.url.com/posts/8 with the HTTP verb POST. This URL however is constructed in my Rails code. So how would I get my submit-url into my jQuery code? Since this is RESTful code, my update URL will change with every post.

Answer 1

Here is how I wired up JEditable (1.6.2) with my restful Rails app (2.2.2):

Inline Form:

<div id="email_name"><%= h( @email.name ) %></div>

$('#email_name').editable( <%= email_path(@email).to_json %>, {
  name: 'email[name]',
  method: 'PUT',
  submitdata: {
    authenticity_token: <%= form_authenticity_token.to_json %>,
    wants: 'name'
  }
});

Controller:

def update
  @email = Email.find( params[:id] )
  @email.update_attributes!( params[:email )
  respond_to do |format|
    format.js
  end
end

update.js.erb

<%=
    case params[:wants]
    when 'name' then h( @email.name )
    # add other attributes if you have more inline forms for this model
    else ''
    end
%>

It is a bit clunky with that switch statement. It would be nice if JEditable would just save the submitted value by default if the ajax request was successful and nothing was returned.