Switch from Prototype to jQuery

app/controllers/geocoder_controller.rb

@@ -28,11 +28,6 @@ class GeocoderController < ApplicationController
       @sources.push "osm_nominatim"
       @sources.push "geonames"
     end
-
-    render :update do |page|
-      page.replace_html :sidebar_content, :partial => "search"
-      page.call "openSidebar"
-    end
   end
 
   def search_latlon
@@ -264,9 +259,9 @@ class GeocoderController < ApplicationController
     end
 
     render :action => "results"
-  rescue Exception => ex
-    @error = "Error contacting nominatim.openstreetmap.org: #{ex.to_s}"
-    render :action => "error"
+#  rescue Exception => ex
+#    @error = "Error contacting nominatim.openstreetmap.org: #{ex.to_s}"
+#    render :action => "error"
   end
 
   def search_geonames
@@ -302,11 +297,6 @@ class GeocoderController < ApplicationController
 
     @sources.push({ :name => "osm_nominatim" })
     @sources.push({ :name => "geonames" })
-
-    render :update do |page|
-      page.replace_html :sidebar_content, :partial => "description"
-      page.call "openSidebar"
-    end
   end
 
   def description_osm_namefinder

app/controllers/message_controller.rb

@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ class MessageController < ApplicationController
   def mark
     if params[:message_id]
       id = params[:message_id]
-      message = Message.where(:id => id).where("to_user_id = ? OR from_user_id = ?", @user.id, @user.id).first
+      @message = Message.where(:id => id).where("to_user_id = ? OR from_user_id = ?", @user.id, @user.id).first
       if params[:mark] == 'unread'
         message_read = false 
         notice = t 'message.mark.as_unread'
@@ -111,15 +111,9 @@ class MessageController < ApplicationController
         message_read = true
         notice = t 'message.mark.as_read'
       end
-      message.message_read = message_read
-      if message.save
-        if request.xhr?
-          render :update do |page|
-            page.replace "inboxanchor", :partial => "layouts/inbox"
-            page.replace "inbox-count", :partial => "message_count"
-            page.replace "inbox-#{message.id}", :partial => "message_summary", :object => message
-          end
-        else
+      @message.message_read = message_read
+      if @message.save
+        if not request.xhr?
           flash[:notice] = notice
           redirect_to :controller => 'message', :action => 'inbox', :display_name => @user.display_name
         end

app/controllers/user_controller.rb

@@ -23,9 +23,7 @@ class UserController < ApplicationController
     @text = OSM.legal_text_for_country(@legale)
 
     if request.xhr?
-      render :update do |page|
-        page.replace_html "contributorTerms", :partial => "terms"
-      end
+      render :partial => "terms"
     elsif using_open_id?
       # The redirect from the OpenID provider reenters here
       # again and we need to pass the parameters through to