using ajax in rails with periodically_call_remote

Question

I am attempting to reload a partial on a page periodically but it does not seem to be working. The partial loads correctly when I first load the page but it will not update when I introduce new info to it without reloadig the page. The view looks like:

<div id="menuarea"style="height: 399px; width: 181px">

 <%=periodically_call_remote(:url => {:action => :findnew}, :frequency => '20', :update => 'menuarea') %>


  <p> Please select a color </p>
<%#partil renders the color table %>
<%= render :partial => "colortable"  %>
</div>

and the controller looks like:

def findnew
  @bunny= Xparsing::Xmlparse.new

@fuzzybunny= @bunny.hex1

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render(:partial => 'colortable')
end

All I am attemptinging to do is reload the partial colortable without reloading the page. I am seeing the render color table in the comand line every 20 seconds but the table is not reloading on the page What do I need to fix?

Answer 1

Are you sure you are not overwriting the Javascript containing periodically_call_remote when you update the <div>?

Don't you want to put that script outside the updating <div>? Or put it into the partial and remove it from where you have it now.

Answer 2

turns out it was an issue with jquery and prototype. I removed jquery and it worked perfectly. Still trying to figure out why