turbolinks_render

Use render in your Rails controllers and handle the response with Turbolinks.

Turbolinks supports redirect_to out of the box. But render is not supported and you have to use workarounds for common things like dealing with forms. This gem aims to fix that.

I think Turbolinks/Rails should handle this officially. If you agree you can vote for this idea.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'turbolinks_render'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Usage

By default, render will be handled by Turbolinks if these conditions are met:

• It's an ajax request
• It's not a get request
• It's not rendering json

When these conditions are met and render is used:

• The body of the page is replaced with the rendered content with Javascript
• An event turbolinks:load is dispatched

You can disable turbolinks on a given request with:

render turbolinks: false

Configuration

You can invert the default behavior: never use turbolinks for rendering unless explicitly indicated. Create a file config/initializers/turbolinks_render.rb and toggle turbolinks_render.render_with_turbolinks_by_default:

Rails.application.config.turbolinks_render.render_with_turbolinks_by_default = false

In this case, to use turbolinks you should write:

render turbolinks: true

Example

An example and an explanatory blog post are also available.

Credits

• Implementation based on this idea by @nerdcave.
  

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.