similar to: Pass paramter via form

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,

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 ActionView::Helpers::FormHelper methods (e.g. #text_field, #check_box...) take object_name as an argument. From this argument they infer a name that is supposed to contains the reference to the relevant object. I can''t see why the FormHelper methods were designed that way. Compared to simply passing them a reference, the current way seems too complicated and an invitation to problems

Thank you to everybody that has helped me since I signed up. I''m flying along thanks to you. I have a question about the FormTagHelper "start_form_tag": I''ve been trying to figure out how to get Rails to output a "name" attribute for my form so I can hook in a Javascript to focus on a field inside of it on load, but it doesn''t look like I can do

Hi All, I''m working on building an app that can log and edit phone call information. I''ve got the creating and editing parting working great, and I''ve started an attempt to add searching. I can''t seem to figure out how to get an [:id] parameter from a form and passed between two controller methods. Right now I have a web page with a single text field in it

Hi .. I am new to Rails and it is not clear to me why I am getting the following error. Any help appreciated. -m. $cat app/views/admin/new.rhtml <% @page_title = "New member..." -%> <%= start_form_tag( :action => ''create'' ) %> <table> <tr> <td> First Name: </td> <td> <%= text_field(

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

I am having trouble getting error_messages_for to work. My controller(relevant parts) looks like def configure @account = session[:account] @user = User.new end def add_new_user_to_account @user = User.new(params[:user]) if @user.valid? session[:account].users << @user end redirect_to :action=> ''configure'' end end and my

We''re developing a system that''s used for tracking company IPO data and we''re running into a few number storage issues. For large numbers, i.e. numbers greater than 100 million, MySQL insists on storing these as scientific notation. I don''t really have a problem with that but when we want to edit these fields using something like: <% form_for(@company) do

I want to override the ''tag'' method in ActionView::Helpers::TagHelper to do some generalized error handling similar to the way scaffolding puts a red border around fields that fail validation. I''ve created a file lib/rails_patches/tag_helper.rb which contains the following. module ActionView module Helpers module TagHelper alias_method :orig_tag, :tag

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

Hi all, I am having a lot of trouble to get the default value of text fields when they are generated by a partial from a collection. I have been on this for a whole week and I didnt find a single exemple on the internet of someone using a partial that generate text field with a default value. I cant believe that I am the only one having this problem. Anyone has an exemple they can show me?

Hello all, I would like to be able to update the "amount" of a certain item in me order list. The problem I run into is how to define the text_field element. @order is the current order, which has_many :order_item which in turn belongs_to :order. order_item has a field "amount" which should be modified... What I tried is this below, but I get a undefined method

Hello, I was talking with someone in IRC, trying to get one form with however many fields to make new rows. He worked with me on the controller, but then I didn''t get the help with the view I needed, and I''ve been trying to do it on my own. I''m uploading pictures to my Pictures table. As you know, I need a few fields for each picture. I''ll need the filename,

I''m using Rails Recipes to create a login form but instead of username and password, my setup is firstname, lastname, password. I seemed to be gramatically challenged and not sure how to set up the parameter list. Can anyone offer up a suggestion. The book shows the method starting like: if request.post? user = User.find(:first, :conditions => [''username = ?'' ,

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

I have looked at examples for this. I found a similar example in the Agile Web Dev... book but that didn''t help. Here''s what i am trying to do. A Cart has many line items. On the Display Cart page, I want to provide the user the option to update quantities. Here''s the rhtml code: <%= start_form_tag :action => ''update_cart'' %>

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:

Does anyone have advice on how to go about locating the cause of this error message: ActionView::TemplateError (wrong number of arguments (3 for 1)) on line #4 of app/views/products/search.rhtml: 4: <%= start_form_tag :action => ''search'' %> I don''t see anything wrong with line 4 above. Some background: I''ve made a number of changes to Controllers,

Hi there I have a for with a couple of text_fields. I''m doing some validation via the model and when the validation "works" I get there was an error on blah blah the problem is the form is erased and I have to fill up the form again! I saw that scaffold keeps the form filled when the validation "works" but I dont know exactly what''s making it happen! I would