Pop up box in Ruby on Rails

Question

Hi I want to display a popup windo on my rails application... Here is exactly what i want is . I have the line called "My profile" (for link i used link_to). if user clicks the link the popup should come out and displays the user's profile details.... i tried with :popup => 'true' option but it creates new window. i want some Ajax kind of stuff... can any one help me on this.

Answer 1

use lightbox to achive it.Rails provide lightbox_helper plugin.

Answer 2

Here is the path I would follow: First, you "load" data from your application with the JQuery load function. For this you can use a normal controller action with a some basic view. Then, you want to put it in a fancy Jquery popup, e.g. explained here

Answer 3

This is not a ruby-on-rails question. What you need is some javascript library to do that. As mentioned by Salil, lightbox is one such library. Others include:

• colorbox
• jQuery UI dialog
• Fancybox
• shadowbox

I personally tried lightbox, thickbox (no longer supported), colorbox, and shadowbox, and found colorbox to best fit my needs.