active_scaffold w/ Rails 3.2 gives no visible response for search, edit, new actions etc

Question

I added a couple of models and controllers with active scaffold. However, whenever I click any of the actions such as new, edit, search, show etc. nothing is visible in the browser. It seems that the server is responding to it as the logs show:

Started GET "/organisms/1" for 127.0.0.1 at 2013-03-15 12:55:35 -0400
Processing by OrganismsController#show as JS
  Parameters: {"id"=>"1"}
  Organism Load (0.4ms)  SELECT "organisms".* FROM "organisms" WHERE "organisms"."id" = $1 LIMIT 1  [["id", "1"]]
   (0.4ms)  SELECT COUNT(*) FROM "genes" WHERE "genes"."organism_id" = 1
  Rendered /opt/local/lib/ruby1.9/gems/1.9.1/gems/active_scaffold-3.2.19/frontends/default/views/_show_columns.html.erb (2.9ms)
  Rendered /opt/local/lib/ruby1.9/gems/1.9.1/gems/active_scaffold-3.2.19/frontends/default/views/_show.html.erb (15.4ms)
Completed 200 OK in 32ms (Views: 26.0ms | ActiveRecord: 0.9ms)

But nothing changes in the browser window. The Firebug 'Net' logs show a response header:

 Cache-Control  max-age=0, private, must-revalidate Connection  close
 Content-Type   text/javascript; charset=utf-8
 Etag   "c08465bfa6a67a8fb4f88964513a6b23" Server   thin 1.5.0 codename
 Knife X-Request-Id 6ee347aa85988460733ffbda65ea12ee X-Runtime  0.036693
 X-UA-Compatible    IE=Edge

The response looks like html to me:

<h4></h4>

<dl>
  <dt>Name</dt>
    <dd class="name-view">
    - &nbsp;
  </dd>
  <dt>Genes</dt>
    <dd class="genes-view">
    - &nbsp;
  </dd>
</dl>

<p class="form-footer">
  <a href="/organisms" class="as_cancel" data-remote="true">Close</a>
  <img alt="loading indicator" class="loading-indicator" id="as_organisms-create-1-loading-indicator" src="/assets/active_scaffold/indicator.gif" style="visibility:hidden;" />
</p>

I suspect the problem two issues:

1. The response header mentions js, but the response body is HTML. Though that can happen for AJAX I think.
2. I am using jquery in my assets (application.js headers) while active_scaffold may be tryung to use prototype. How do I check this? Note that in Rails 3.2, one does not mention prototype or jquery while installing the active_scaffold gem : https://github.com/activescaffold/active_scaffold/wiki/Getting-Started

Answer 1

Is the data on the page changing? I think activescaffold is using ajax to re-render portions of the page, so you will not see the hole page change. If there is nothing different on the screen then it will look like nothing happened.

Answer: Use git master gem 'active_scaffold', :git => 'git://github.com/activescaffold/active_scaffold.git' see below for details