What's a better name for this function, and how do you better accomplish the same task?

remote_function_with_container_and_id_from_javascript.rb

# Pass the container name, ID variable name, and options with those names 
# surrounded by ## on either side, and this function will replace those, 
# closing the string and referring to a javascript variable in each place
#
# An example of when it's useful: Suppose you have a set of lists on screen 
# with some items. You periodically want to refresh the items for one of 
# the lists, and you don't want to generate the same function for each list
# in the page. Instead, you'd rather just have one function and pass the ID 
# of the list to it, and figure out the DOM ID and route based on the ID
# passed to the javascript function.
#
# function loadModel(id) {
#   var container = $('list_items_' + id);
#   <%= remote_function(:update=>'WTF, how do I know? at Ruby run-time?', 
#           :url=>url_for('again, how do I know here?')) %>
# }
#
# With this function, you do this instead:
# function loadList(id){
#   var container = $('list_items_' + id);
#   <%= remote_function_with_container_and_id_from_javascript("container", "id", 
#           :update=>'##container##', :url=>list_todos_path('##id##')) %>
# }

def remote_function_with_container_and_id_from_javascript(container_variable_name, 
    id_variable_name, options)
  unless options[:update] =~ /###{container_variable_name}##/
    raise "Could not find the container variable name in the :update option: #{options[:update].inspect}" 
  end
  unless options[:url] =~ /%23%23#{id_variable_name}%23%23/
    raise "Could not find the ID variable name in the :url option: #{options[:url].inspect}"
  end
  updater_string = remote_function(options)
  updater_string.sub!(/['"]###{container_variable_name}##['"]/, container_variable_name)
  updater_string.sub!(/(['"])(.+?)%23%23#{id_variable_name}%23%23(.+?)(['"])/){ 
    "#{$1}#{$2}#{$1} + #{id_variable_name}  + #{$1}#{$3}#{$1}" 
  }
  return updater_string
end