Implementing Remote Modals In Rails

Sometimes you don’t want to write big JavaScript application just to have working remote modals in your rails application. The whole JSON-response parsing thing looks big and scary. Why can’t we simply render our views on a server and just display them as modals to users? Let’s take a look at how we can implement this with elegance.

Note: I am using bootstrap 4 modals here but this solution can be adapted to any JS modals implementations.
Check out working demo and source code.

  
  
  Step 0. Prepare your bundle

  
  
  Rails 4.2+

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