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    copied!<p>I want my views/blogs/new to open in a dialog. Tried to make it work per this SO answer: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/5318155/732200">https://stackoverflow.com/a/5318155/732200</a> </p> <p>Here is my code (the blogs are called "fables"):</p> <p>This is my partial - views/fables/fablemaker.html.erb</p> <pre><code>&lt;div id="fableMaker" title="Fable Maker" style="display:none"&gt; &lt;div id="countdownTimer"&gt; &lt;span id="countdown_timer" class="timer"&gt;4:20&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;button id="play_btn"&gt;Play Timer&lt;/button&gt; &lt;button id="pause_btn"&gt;Pause Timer&lt;/button&gt; &lt;button id="reset_btn"&gt;Reset Timer&lt;/button&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;%= form_for @fable do |f| %&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;%= f.label :content, "Fable Portal:" %&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;%= f.text_area :content, :style =&gt; "" %&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;%= f.label :title, "What would you like to title your creation?" %&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;%= f.text_field :title %&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;%= f.submit "Create Fable", remote: true %&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;% end %&gt; &lt;/div&gt; </code></pre> <p>Here is the views/fables/create.js.erb:</p> <pre><code>$("#fableMaker").dialog({ autoOpen: false, height: 900, width: 550, modal: true, title: 'Fable Maker', buttons: { "Create": function() { $("#fable_form").submit() }, }, open: function() { $("#fable_form").html("&lt;%= escape_javascript(render('fablemaker')) %&gt;") }, }); </code></pre> <p>Here is the fables_controller, create action:</p> <pre><code>class FablesController &lt; ApplicationController respond_to :html, :js def create @user = current_user @fable = @user.fables.build(params[:fable]) @fable.save respond_with @fable, :location =&gt; @fable end </code></pre> <p>Here are the related routes calls:</p> <pre><code> root :to =&gt; "pages#home" resources :fables match '/views/fables/fablemaker', :to =&gt; 'fables#create' get "fables/create" </code></pre> <p>This is the link that is supposed to launch the page:</p> <pre><code> &lt;li&gt;&lt;%= link_to image_tag("makeyourfable.png", :size =&gt; "130x102", :alt =&gt; "freewriting portal", :class =&gt; "typewriter", :mouseover =&gt; "makeyourfableH.png"), new_fable_path %&gt; &lt;/li&gt; </code></pre> <p>When I check the page source, all of the elements and fields are loading, but they are not visible - and not, of course, in a dialog box. All that shows is my application.html content.</p>
 

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