Link_to if POST needed is a a hard nut to crack

Rails
1

So, I’m pretty much a beginner, so I would appreciate some help with
this
issue.

So, I have link_to helper (yes, I know that button_to is much easer, but
for the needs of application it should be link_to), which should POST
something in database without rederecting to any pages.

<%= link_to(result_array[k], :controller =>'tests', :action => 'add_key', :method => :post, :keyword => result_array[k], :position=>k, :remote =>true) + result_array[k+1]%>

add_key method in tests_controller.rb:

def add_key
@test=Test.find(params[:id])
@[email protected]
@key.keyword = params[:keyword]
@key.position = params[:position]
@key.save
respond_to do |format|
format.js
end
end

But despite I added :method=>:post option in server log I still see
server
“GET” request.

After an hour of hard googling I found out, that without form submitting
link_to won’t create a “POST” request.

Kinda weird, because I don’t need any forms here and the second trouble
that Key exist only like a Model, I didn’t created controller or view
for
Key because generally I don’t need them.

So I added form:

<% form_for add_key_test_path do |f| %>


<%= f.submit %>

<% end %>

and add_key.js.erb to manage autosubmitting:

$(’.source’).click(function(){
$(this).$(’.actions’).submit()
});

But this doensn’t work. I spent a 2-3 hours trying to get this finally
done, but can’t find mistake or wrong point. Any advice or help would be
really appreciated.

2

On Saturday, March 9, 2013 7:05:45 AM UTC, Barry wrote:

:method => :post, :keyword => result_array[k], :position=>k, :remote
=>true) + result_array[k+1]%>

This is a classic: rails thinks in this case that :method and :remote are
parameters for your controller action, rather than options to apply to
the
link generation process.

You need something like link_to(result_array[k], {:controller =>
‘tests’,
…}, :method => :post, :remote => true)

And you also need the rails javascript loaded so that it will add
javascript handlers to the links that create and submit a form on the
fly

       <%= f.submit %>

The thing you call submit on is the form, so something along the lines
of

$(’.source’).click(function() {
$(‘selector that will find the form’).submit()
})

Fred

3

Thaanks! finally works.

After an hours I tried to set up this quite hard stuff, it just working
looks like a magic +)

4

once again rails guides for the rescue

chapter 1.2 Multiple Hashes in Form Helper Calls

“As with the link_to helper, the path argument doesnt have to be given a
string; it can be a hash of URL parameters recognizable by Rails routing
mechanism, which will turn the hash into a validURL. However, since both
arguments to form_tag are hashes, you can easily run into a problem if
you
would like to specify both. For instance, lets say you write this:”

“Here, method and class are appended to the query string of the
generated
URL because you even though you mean to write two hashes, you really
only
specified one. So you need to tell Ruby which is which by delimiting the
first hash (or both) with curly brackets. This will generate the HTMLyou
expect:”