Rails - May 2005 - submit rails form

Is there a way in rails to choose controller action to which form will 
be submitted?

Currently I have something like this:

VIEW:
<%= start_form_tag(:action => ''action_chooser'', :id
=> @id %>
...
<%= hidden_field_tag("action_type") %>
<%= link_to_function "action1", 
"document.frm.action_type.value=''action1'';
document.frm.submit()" %> <br>
<%= link_to_function "action2", 
"document.frm.action_type.value=''action2'';
document.frm.submit()" %> <br>

CONTROLLER:

def action_chooser
  case action_type
    when ''action1''
         ...
    when ''action2''


I would like to have action1 and action2 functions in controller and 
somehow choose on the client where to submit.

Thanks,
Igor.

On Tuesday, May 10, 2005, 8:22:09 AM, ianic wrote:
> Is there a way in rails to choose controller action to which form will
> be submitted?
> Currently I have something like this:
> VIEW:
> <%= start_form_tag(:action => ''action_chooser'', :id
=> @id %>
Untested, but should work:

  <%= start_form_tag(:controller => ''whatever'', :action
=> ''action_chooser'', :id => @id %>

Gavin

There are probably a few ways to do this, but it sounds like your
trying to use one master-form to handle a number of different
things.
>From a testing/maintainability point of view, I prefer more
fine-grained HTML->controller interactions. If you really want the
user to be directed to different controllers, then I''d definately
recommend having a one form->one controller mapping, otherwise testing
becomes more complicated.
sam

On 5/10/05, Gavin Sinclair
<gsinclair-81uBx+iSpXA0n/F98K4Iww@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> On Tuesday, May 10, 2005, 8:22:09 AM, ianic wrote:
> 
> > Is there a way in rails to choose controller action to which form will
> > be submitted?
> 
> > Currently I have something like this:
> 
> > VIEW:
> > <%= start_form_tag(:action =>
''action_chooser'', :id => @id %>
> 
> Untested, but should work:
> 
>   <%= start_form_tag(:controller => ''whatever'',
:action => ''action_chooser'', :id => @id %>
> 
> Gavin
> 
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