Rails, AJAX, and jQuery..just add water?

Question

Excuse my daftness, but I can not understand how ruby vars can be attained with jQuery. I made a button that by json POSTS to the server to make a credit_status = 0. But I would like that 0 to also auto-update on the page as well.

My View:

HQ $
= organization.total_credit
= link_to 'redeem', redeem_admin_organization_path(organization), :class => 'button_short redeem live'

redeem.js :

== $("#organization_#{@organization.id} .redeem").html("#{escape_javascript(link_to('redeem', redeem_admin_organization_path(@organization), :class => 'button_short live redeem'))}");

controller ( not sure if you need to see this ):

def redeem
  @organization = Organization.find(params[:id])
  users_who_promoted = CardSignup.find(:all).select {|c| c.store_id == @organization.id && c.credit_status == true}
  unless users_who_promoted.empty?
    users_who_promoted.update_all("credit_status","false")
  end
  @organization.update_attribute('total_credit', '0')
end

main.js:

$(".live").live("click", function() {
    $.ajax({type: "GET", url: $(this).attr("href"), dataType: "script"});
    return false;
});

Does anyone know how to draw and update a single variable on a page using jSon/jQuery/Rails? Is there a really good resource out there for learning this?

Answer 1

app/controllers/vouchers_controller.rb

class VouchersController < ApplicationController # Just made up the name
  def redeem
    @organization = Organization.find(params[:organization_id])
    @organization.update_attribute('total_credit', 0)
    respond_to do |format|
      format.js
    end
  end
end

app/views/vouchers/redeem.js.erb

$("#organization_<%= @organization.id %> .redeem").html(
  "<%= escape_javascript(link_to('redeem', 
                                 redeem_admin_organization_path(@organization), 
                                 :class => 'button_short live redeem')) %>");

$(".total_credit").text( "<%= @organization.total_credit %>" );

The important thing to understand is that redeem.js.erb is just another erb-template with the same syntax as in *.html.erb