Best techniques to ajaxify Rails app?

I'm currently ajaxifying my Rails app as follows.

JS

application.js

$("a").live("click", function() {
      $.getScript(this.href);
      //do something
       return false;
    });

Views

index.js.erb

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

index.html.erb

<%= render 'index' %>

_index.html.erb

#my partial

So when a user clicks a link, it will be intercepted and the corresponding js file will be executed, which renders a partial in a div. This means that, for each action, I will need 3 views, say index.js.erb, _index.html.erb, and i开发者_如何学Gondex.html.erb.

This is painstaking to set up, and the index.html.erb file is somewhat useless, it just renders the partial (perhaps there's a way to render a full view from another view directly, hence eliminating the need for a partial?).

Is this the best way to do things? How do you usually imbricate Ajax with Rails?

Thanks.

Javascript MVC seems like it works well with MVC style backends. It standardizes ajax calls, controllers and views in a similar way that you are showing above:

http://javascriptmvc.com/