Ajax call in rails 3

Question

I had a link in the page. I am using jquery to call an action in rails 3. For that i had given

   <%= link_to "Publish",'',:id=>"view_code#{counter}",:remote=>true %>

   <%= javascript_tag do %>
        jQuery(function($) {
   $("#view_code<%= "#{counter}" %>").click(function() {
        $.post("/yanas/publish/<%= id %>", function(data) {
    $("#(publish<%= "#{counter}" %>)").html(data);
        });
    });
        });
    <% end   %>

Now what happens is that, the request is going as / The message in the teminal is

Processing by YanasController#publish as * / *

and in the publish action i wrote

respond_to do |format|
   format.html { render :partial => 'publish' }

end

But I am not displayed the content in the browser.In the terminal, I am getting

Rendered yanas/_publish.html.erb (0.8ms)

How I solve this?