Question: I am trying to return html via and Ajax call and I have the following snippet of code in my view

```
if request.is_ajax(): 
t = loader.get_template('frontend/scroll.html')
html = t.render(RequestContext({'dishes': dishes})
return HttpResponse(json.dumps({'html': html}))

```

and my Ajax

```
  $.ajax({
           type: "POST",
           url: "/filter_home", 
           data: {'name': 'me', 'csrfmiddlewaretoken': '{{csrf_token}}'},
           success : function(data) {
                $('.row.replace').html(data);
            }
   });

```

and it throws the following error

```
Exception Value:    'dict' object has no attribute 'META'
Exception Location: /opt/bitnami/apps/django/lib/python2.7/sitepackages/django/core/context_processors.py in debug, line 39

```

what am I doing wrong?

Answer: 
The first argument of RequestContext is a request object.

You could either add the request object or use the Context class instead.
First parameter to `RequestContext()` should be `request`, so update line in your code as

```
html = t.render(RequestContext(request, {'dishes': dishes})

```