Rails - Mar 2006 - How to not display :id in link_to URL

Hello all.

I have a page which has a form on it. the page''s URL is 
http://127.0.0.1:3000/Component/history and The form action is:

<%= start_form_tag :action => :history %>
<%= text_field_tag ''id'',
"#{session[:component_criteria]}" || nil,
:class => ''mandatory'' %><br />
  <%= submit_tag "Search", :class => "button" %>
<%= end_form_tag %>

When this form is submitted then the page is loaded again with the same 
URL
with fields further down the page populated based on the params[:id] 
submitted with the form. (My controller does different things based on 
request.get?)

All this works groovily. If, however, I try and link to this page from 
another page using:

<td><%= link_to "#{componentlog.cl_compname}", { :controller
=>
''component'', :action => ''history'', :id
=> componentlog.cl_compname},
:post => true %></td>

The page is loaded with the following URL:

http://127.0.0.1:3000/Component/history/ComponentName

Then any future searches on the form will have the :id value overridden 
with the one in the URL string

Since I am using POST in the link_to I didn''t expect to see the :id in 
the URL string. (Since it doesn''t appear when I submit the form, also a
POST). Javascript is not disabled.

How can I load the page so that the URL only has the :controller and the 
:action
but the :id, while being passed to the page, is not in the actual URL 
string.

If I breakpoint into the controller the page is definately loaded with a 
POST.

Many thanks

Jeff Jones



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Jeff Jones wrote:
> I have a page which has a form on it. the page''s URL is 
> http://127.0.0.1:3000/Component/history and The form action is:
> 
> <%= start_form_tag :action => :history %>
> ...
> How can I load the page so that the URL only has the :controller and the 
> :action
> but the :id, while being passed to the page, is not in the actual URL 
> string.
Try
	<%= form_tag :id => nil %>


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Mark Reginald James wrote:
> Jeff Jones wrote:
> 
>> I have a page which has a form on it. the page''s URL is 
>> http://127.0.0.1:3000/Component/history and The form action is:
>> 
>> <%= start_form_tag :action => :history %>
>> ...
>> How can I load the page so that the URL only has the :controller and
the
>> :action
>> but the :id, while being passed to the page, is not in the actual URL 
>> string.
> 
> Try
> 	<%= form_tag :id => nil %>
> 
> 
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> We develop, watch us RoR, in numbers too big to ignore.
Woohoo! That did it, thanks very much. That was the last known bug in 
this program.

Many cookies to you.

Jeff

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