What are best practices for using frames (or iframes) with Rails?

Question

I'm building a Ruby on Rails app where people are clicking on addresses. When they click, I want to display a small google map of the address in a frame (I want to use a frame/iframe so when they scroll down to look at more addresses, the little map won't scroll off too.) I'm having a hard time finding examples or discussions of this. I was thinking of hacking up the layout with raw FRAMESET tags, but that seems kind of barbaric. What is the best way to use frames or iframes within a Rails app?

BTW, we're using Haml for our templating, if it matters.

Thanks in advance! -Jason

Answer 1

you could try the Greybox jQuery plugin.

Answer 2

You can anchor an iframe to the side of your page (or bottom or whatever) using CSS (position: fixed). If you do that, be sure to take into consideration overlapping issues. This is easily resolved with a margin for body.