Rails - How to render js in an html response

I have an action 'index', that when called via ajax, renders index.js which renders a partial:

$("#content").html("<%= escape_javascript(render :partial => 'index') %>");

How do I make the same thing happen in the html response? I tried:

format.html { render "i开发者_JS百科ndex.js" }

And although I don't get any errors, the js code doesn't seem to run, because the partial doesn't render.

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Have you tried wrapping the script inside <script> tag?

Your index.html.erb would look like this:

<script type="text/javascript">
  $("#content").html("<%= escape_javascript(render :partial => 'index') %>");
</script>

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The default render is a shortcut for render :action => :action_name. To specify a filesystem path use render :file => "index.js"