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copied!<p>In my Rails 4 application I have a controller, items_controller.rb, which has an action "new":</p> <pre><code>def new respond_to do |format| format.html format.js end end </code></pre> <p>In the new.html.erb I have the following code which initiates an ajax call to the same action "new" when I click on "#aaa".</p> <pre><code><script> $(document).ready(function() { $("#aaa").click(function() { $.ajax({ url: "/items/new", data: {}, async: true, dataType: 'script' }); }); }); </script> </code></pre> <p>Here is new.js.erb:</p> <pre><code>$("#test_tag").html("qqq"); </code></pre> <p>This code works perfectly fine and when I click on "#aaa", it modifies the html of "#test_tag" to "qqq" as expected. Now if I just try to do the same using another action in my items_controller.rb say "htmlupdate" it won't work. All I do is change the url in the ajax call (in my new.html.erb):</p> <pre><code><script> $(document).ready(function() { $("#aaa").click(function() { $.ajax({ url: "/items/htmlupdate", data: {}, async: true, dataType: 'script' }); }); }); </script> </code></pre> <p>and create a method htmlupdate in my items_controller </p> <pre><code>def htmlupdate respond_to do |format| format.html format.js end end </code></pre> <p>and create a file htmlupdate.js.erb with the content:</p> <pre><code>$("#test_tag").html("qqq"); </code></pre> <p>Now, nothing works. Why is that? Is there something wrong with my url: ... syntax? I really appreciate your help.</p>

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