How to access an array via RJS proxy?

Question

In Rails' RJS Adapter,

page['id'] // $('id')

accesses an CSS-id,

page['id'].property // $('id').property

a property of it. But how can I access an array index, e.g.

page.select('ul').value_at(2) // $('id').select('ul')[2]

Is there any way of doing this without writing:

page << "$('id').select('ul')[2]"

Answer 1

You can't access arrays like that from rjs but, anyone of these would work:

page['id']['firstChild']['nextSibling']
page['id'].down(2)

Generates:

$("id").firstChild.nextSibling;
$("id").down(2);

Of course, the best solution would be to add some identifying css class or element id to the second element and select by that from your rjs file.

If you'd like to stick to using page.select, you could implement value_at like this (called pick here):

>>> Array.prototype.pick = function(n) { return this[n]; };
function()
>>> ['a', 'b', 'c'].pick(1)
"b"