Execute ruby method within Javascript - Ruby on Rails App

Question

Upon completing watching a video on JWPlayer, I want to execute a ruby method in the UsersController that updates a User model attribute

I am not sure what I am doing wrong.

Home.html.erb

<script src="//content.jwplatform.com/players/<%= a = Video.mediakey(Time.now.strftime("%Y%m%d").to_i) %>-3sPMNLmx.js"></script>
<script>
jwplayer().on('complete', function() {
  $.ajax("/users/increase_workouts")
});
</script>

UsersController

# Adds video to number of workouts
    def increase_workouts
      if logged_in?
        current_user.workouts += 1
      else
        redirect_to login_url
      end
    end

Routes.rb

Rails.application.routes.draw do

  get 'password_resets/new'

  get 'password_resets/edit'

  get 'sessions/new'

  get 'users/new'

  get 'videos/new'

  get 'videos/index'

  root "static_pages#home"

  get 'static_pages/about'

  get 'static_pages/contact'

  get 'static_pages/help'

  get 'signup'  => 'users#new'

  get  'upload' => 'videos#new'

  get    'login'   => 'sessions#new'
  post   'login'   => 'sessions#create'
  delete 'logout'  => 'sessions#destroy'

  resources :users do
  get :increase_workouts, on: :collection 
  end
  resources :videos
  resources :account_activations, only: [:edit]
  resources :password_resets,     only: [:new, :create, :edit, :update]
end

Everything seems to be working, but it is asking for a template... I don't want a template, I want it to increase current_user.workouts by 1. This is what I get from the server log...

ActionView::MissingTemplate (Missing template users/increase_workouts, application/increase_workouts with {:locale=>[:en], :formats=>[:html, :text, :js, :css, :ics, :csv, :vcf, :png, :jpeg, :gif, :bmp, :tiff, :mpeg, :xml, :rss, :atom, :yaml, :multipart_form, :url_encoded_form, :json, :pdf, :zip], :variants=>[], :handlers=>[:erb, :builder, :raw, :ruby, :coffee, :jbuilder]}. Searched in: * "/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.0/gems/web-console-2.0.0.beta3/lib/action_dispatch/templates" * "/home/ubuntu/workspace/app/views" * "/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.0/gems/web-console-2.0.0.beta3/app/views" ): actionview (4.2.2) lib/action_view/path_set.rb:46:in find' actionview (4.2.2) lib/action_view/lookup_context.rb:121:infind'
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There's not enough information here to really answer the question, but you can start by checking to see your "complete" callback is running. Just stick a console.log("complete callback"); before your ajax request. You can inspect the response via the .success and .failure callbacks (see api.jquery.com/jquery.ajax) and look at the rails development logs to see if your request is being sent. — Allolex
I know the "complete" callback is running because I have put alert("Hi!"); before ajax and it worked just fine. — Doughtz

Allolex Allolex · Accepted Answer · 2016-08-01T03:16:07

It helps to know what you expect it to do and what it is actually doing.

The logs tell us there is an exception being raised: ActionView::MissingTemplate. The "Missing template users/increase_workouts, application/increase_workouts" message is telling you something important about a missing view template and it's giving you the locations where it expects to find a template.

When you talk to a controller action by sending a request, it needs to know how to respond to your request. By convention, Rails renders a template with the same name as the action, e.g. index.html.erb or index.jbuilder, but in the case of your special action, you either need to create a response template or tell the controller what to render.

Something like this right after you add one to the workouts in your controller action should give you a "success" response.

render(json: { message: "Workouts increased" }, status: :ok) and return

But you can also just render(status: :ok) and return. The :ok here is a human-friendly way of indicating the HTTP status code 200, which your client (the JS on your page) needs to see in a response.

For more details, see http://guides.rubyonrails.org/layouts_and_rendering.html#using-render

Execute ruby method within Javascript - Ruby on Rails App

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