This is a responds to parent plugin that is compatible with rails 2 and rails 3. It is based off the original work by Sean Treadway and has updates from Nicolas Papon. This plugin is available as a ruby gem to aid plugins and applications using bundler to easily resolve dependency issues.
Controller:
class Test < ActionController::Base def main end def form_action # Do stuff with params[:uploaded_file] responds_to_parent do render :update do |page| page << "alert($('stuff').innerHTML)" end end end end
main.html.erb:
<html>
<body>
<div id="stuff">Here is some stuff</div>
<form target="frame" action="form_action">
<input type="file" name="uploaded_file"/>
<input type="submit"/>
</form>
<iframe id='frame' name="frame"></iframe>
</body>
</html>