similar to: Serious noob question. Any help would be great

when the user click on "Search" I would like it to point to http://curentpage/?filter=searchtext (the filtering code is already written) it would look like this: <%= start_form_tag(url_for_options = {<something>}) %> <%=text_field (<my_filter>) %> <%= submit_tag(value = "Search")%> any idea how to do this? thanx in advance

Hello, I would like to know is there is a way to avoid poluting the views with tons of <% %> ? Like this <%= start_form_tag() %> <%= text_field_tag(''category[title]'', category.title, {:size => 20, :maxlength => 128}) %> <% if not category.parent_id.nil? %> <%= select("category", "parent_id", Category.find(:all,

Hiall, I want to give the action of a form an additional parameters but can''t figure out how to do it. My code looks like this <%= start_form_tag :action => ''create'', next_step => true %> <%= render :partial => ''user_form'' %> <%= render :partial => ''community_form'' %> <%= submit_tag

I am writing an app with i18n , so my main.rhtml has this option <%= start_form_tag :action => ''lang_hi'' %> <%= select "Lang","language",[''Telugu'',''Hindi'']%> <%= submit_tag "Go" %> <%= end_form_tag %> the above way i am able to call only one action , is there a way i can call any

Hi, I''m just starting with Rails and i''m trying to do something like this: <%= start_form_tag :action => ''add_user'', :id => @social_event_group %> <%= select ''user'', ''id'' , User.find_all.collect {|u| [ u.login, u.id ] }%></p> <%= submit_tag "Add User" %> <%= end_form_tag %>

How do I use... <%= link_to "All Facilities", :action => ''fac_log_all'' %> if I add :target => "_new" that is just a parameter and not a directive. I just want reports to print into a separate window. How do I do that? It''s not clear at all to me Craig

Hi there, I have this form code in a view: <%= start_form_tag :action => "listByArtist", :id => artist.id %> <p><b>List by Artist:</b> <select id="artist_id" name="artists[id]"> <%= options_from_collection_for_select(@artists, "id", "name") %> </select> <%= submit_tag "List"

Hello, i have the application set up on my radrails. I was looking at the view generated by scaffold and i see a bunch of names, after looking up internet i found that they are helpers and generate the HTML for us. Now, i wanted to look at the helper code for start_form_tag, so that based on that i could write some of my own helpers in my helper classes... but i could not find the code

Hi, I''m running round in circles again! I''m trying to save a note that has a HABTM relationship with a job. The note is new - the job exists. In my partial for notes I have ; <%= start_form_tag :action => ''new_note'', :id => @job %> <%= text_area_tag "note", nil, :size => "65x10" %> <%=submit_tag

Hi I''m having a really hard time trying to get a specific form in RoR to work. I''m trying to build a really simple page which lets the user make a pizza by setting check boxes. The choose their toppings, click submit and the form does a callback and shows them how much it will cost to have a pizza with those toppings on. At the moment I have the following: View: <%=

I can''t see how to use variables so I am using console to test things out... clients table - a column named first_name My very brief console session... >> clients = Client.find_by_sql("select * from clients where first_name = FN") ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid: RuntimeError: ERROR C42703 Mcolumn "fn" does not exist Fparse_expr.c L1034

Hello * Obviously the rhtml below does not work, but it should be apparent what I try to achieve - I would like to give the user the choice to submit a form either to action1 or action2 but I cannot figure out how?! It would be great if someone could give some assistance. Thanks a lot, Alex <%= start_form_tag :action1 => ''save'', :action2 =>

I copied the scaffolding edit and update and made it like this, Note: awnser is edit. Admin_contoller.rb def awnser @question = Question.find(params[:id]) end def update @question = Question.find(params[:id]) if @question.update_attributes(params[:question]) flash[:notice] = ''Question was successfully updated.'' redirect_to :action => ''list''

With the help of the Rails Recipes have got a self-referential HABTM relationship working, but I''m really struggling with getting a new entry from a form accepted. i should say here that the form is also submitting info for the join table too. So in my model I have: class Type < ActiveRecord::Base has_and_belongs_to_many :subtypes, :class_name => ''Type'',

Please can someone show me the correct syntax for a hidden field in forms, this is my code <%= start_form_tag :action => ''create'' %> <div class="form1"> <table width="auto" boader="8" cellspacing="5" cellpadding="5"> <% hidden_field ''line_item'', ''client_id'', :value

Hello, The following view: <%= start_form_tag %> Enter term to find <p> <%= text_field_tag :name, params[:name] %> </p> <%= link_to "Find", { :action => ''find_term''} %> <%= end_form_tag %> does not appear to pass back the value of :name to the action: def find_term term =

Hi, I have the following view: <%= start_form_tag ( { :action => ''find'' }, :method => ''get'') %> <p> <%= text_field_tag :lemma, params[:lemma] %> </p> <%= link_to "Find It", :class => "submit" %> <%= end_form_tag %> And the following find action in the controller:

I have this in a view: <%= start_form_tag :action => ''create_price'', :id => @media.id %> <%= select("media", "price_code_id", PriceCode.find_all.collect {|pc| [pc.name, pc.id ] }, { :include_blank => false }) %> <%= submit_tag ''Add Price Code'' %> <%= end_form_tag %> My question is, how would I access the

How to make that the typed code on ruby in text_area it was carried out in @params ["name"]?? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi All, I''ve been trying to create an upload form page that will take an uploaded file, and save it to a directory on the server. I''ve tried following a couple of posts on this list, and the HowTo from here: http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowtoUploadFiles Here is the code in my view: <%= start_form_tag ( {:action => "upload"}, { :mulipart => true }