update users info via ajax is working, yay. Next thing is we need to move the datatables into an ajax call and so that we can refresh the table upon any changes occuring

app/controllers/admin_controller.rb

@@ -4,4 +4,23 @@ class AdminController < ApplicationController
     @users = User.all
   end
   
+  def get_user
+    @user = User.find_by_id(params[:admin_id].to_s)
+    render :partial => "layouts/admin/get_user"
+  end
+  
+  def update_user
+    user = User.find_by_id(params[:admin_id])
+    if user
+      user.update_attributes(params[:user].reject { |k| k == ("password" || "password_confirmation") })
+      pass = params[:user][:password]
+      user.password = pass if !(pass.blank?)
+      user.save!
+      message = true
+    end
+    respond_to do |format|
+      format.json { render :json => { :msg => message ? "success" : "failure"} }
+    end
+  end
+  
 end