jQuery .AJAX is not moving on to the SUCCESS and alerting

Question

See anything wrong with this?

$.ajax({
    url: '/nav/side',
    data: "urlpath=" + urlpath,
    success: function(data) {
        alert('Load was performed.');
      }
});

For some reason it's not alerting.. I'm using rails 3...

Thanks

Answer 1

There's something outside of your question that's erroring, check your console for errors. For actual request debugging, add an error handler so you can see what's blowing up, like this:

$.ajax({
    url: '/nav/side',
    data: "urlpath=" + urlpath,
    success: function(data) {
        alert('Load was performed.');
    },
    error: function(xhr, status, error) {
        alert('An error occured: ' + status + '\n' + error);
    }
});