jQuery Mobile and Rails RESTful actions

Question

I'm having a problem with how jQuery mobile works with RESTful actions in Rails.

For this explaination, let's assume I have a resource called Planet and a PlanetsController and I'm attempting to create a new Planet by sending a post request from /planets/new to /planets. If this action succeeds, my URL is now /planets even though it's actually showing /planets/1. If the action failed, my URL is also now /planets/ instead of /planets/new.

In both of these cases, if I click the Back button to go back to the index action, it won't work because jQuery Mobile thinks I'm already on /planets. I have to reload the page in order to get back.

Is there a way to fix this so normal Rails RESTful actions can be used?

owyongsk owyongsk · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-10T19:02:31

I had the same issue as well, I just added data-ajax = "false" to my form with the downside of having no transitions. Or you can follow another solution I found here: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/html5/articles/jquery-mobile-and-rails.html#articlecontentAdobe_numberedheader_1

jQuery Mobile and Rails RESTful actions

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