When rendering js.erb file, it renders layout with the javascript, is it a bug?

Question

A workaround that I found was to explicitly state in controller

render :action => :some_action, :layout => false

otherwise JavaScript fails to work

Anyone found this problem or maybe something is wrong with my configuration...

Answer 1

it's a normal behaviour. How he know that you don't want render this layout ?

You can avoid the layout to all of your js format in add in your ApplicationController

Class ApplicationController

  layout :no_in_js_format

  def no_in_js_format
    if request.format == :js
      return nil
    else
      return 'application
    end
  end
end