Avoid HTML requests and make only js call - ruby on rails

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I'm developing a web app in Ruby-On-Rails. It heavily uses JavaScript. The problem is, when user clicks on a link which is suppose to make JS call and if the JavaScript is disabled or fails to load completely due to slow internet connection; it makes HTML request. This gives me error "Missing template". I don't want to redirect user to any HTML page template.

How can I disable link when JavaScript is turned off? or force to make only JS call? I want to implement something similar like Twitter.

Any help highly appreciated. Thanks :)

jfriend00 · Accepted Answer · 2012-02-22 06:14:46Z

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If you never want the link to actually process the href and go anywhere, then set the href for the link to "#" rather than a real URL.

answered Feb 22, 2012 at 6:14

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Bongs Over a year ago

hmm.. right.. but then how can I make JS call to the URL? should I specify that URL in a data attribute?

jfriend00 Over a year ago

If you need data on the link, you can put it on some other attribute like a data attribute if you want.

Bongs Over a year ago

thanks... I wonder how Twitter hide the URL! They never mention the URL. As if they construct the route in js.

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