Reloading table, on Rails controller action

eastsidedev

Rails 5.2

In my views/books/show.html.slim, I have the following:

= render partial: 'authors/index', locals: {author_id: @author_id, book_id: @book_id}

In my views/authors/_index.html.slim, I have:

table.table-striped#CommentsOnAuthors.display

javascript:
  $('#CommentsOnAuthors').DataTable({
    ajax: {
      url: '/authors_comments',
      data: {
        author_id: "#{author_id}",
        book_id: "#{book_id}"
      }
    },
    columns: [
      {title: 'Book', data: 'book'},
      {title: 'Author', data: 'author'},
      {title: 'Comment', data: 'comment'}
    ]
  });

ِAnd in my controllers/authors_controller.rb, I have:

def index
  comments = Comments.where(author: params[:author_id], book: params[:book_id])
  render json: { data: activity_logs }
end

When the main page (views/books/show) load as the app starts, everything loads fine, and the table showing author comments is showing fine.

From another part of the main page, someone can enter a comment, and it goes into the comments table. The controllers/authors_controller.rb has a method to deal with that:

def create
  comment = params[:comment]
  author = params[:author]
  book = params[:book]
  @new_comment = Author.new(comment: comment, author: author, book: book)
end

If I refresh the main page, then the table refreshes and shows the new comment. However, what I want to do, is force a refresh, ONLY of the table, not the whole page, when a new comment is entered. Any ideas how to do this?

eastsidedev

I have a typo above, but I can't find an edit button:

def index
  comments = Comments.where(author: params[:author_id], book: 
params[:book_id])
  render json: { data: comments }
end

colin

You could issue an ajax reload with ajax.reload(), that would get the new data back from the server.

Colin

eastsidedev

How would I do that?