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I''ve got a form that should post to user/login. The code to start the tag is: <%= start_form_tag { :controller => "user", :action => "login" } %> That gives me this exception: compile error script/../config/../app/views/user/login.rhtml:1: parse error, unexpected tASSOC, expecting ''}'' _erbout = ''''; _erbout.concat((

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

Hi, I''m wondering if there is any way to specify the id of a form tag with the start_form_tag helper. I''ve tried playing around with ", id=>"marginForm" " and also inclosing both the action variable and id variable in curley brackets. The Rails API doesn''t off much help for a n00b like me. It''s probably really easy but any help you guys

All, If I want my form action to be a secure target, what is the best way to go about doing that? I''m trying to do: <%= start_form_tag( { :protocol => ''https://'', :host => request.host + '':3001'', :action => ''login'' } ) %> in my view, but this doesn''t seem to generate a URL with https:// and my SSL host in

i am trying to get a start_form_tag working, but i am shooting blanks.. here''s what i am trying to do.. i have a controller called "forms.." with an action "new_entry".. it is called by: localhost/forms/new_entry this is just a quick form to test another action.. that action is: localhost/logger my question is, how do i construct start form tag in order to

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 =>

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"

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, How can I get start_form_tag to use GET instead of POST? I have tried... <%= start_form_tag {:action => ''search''}, {:method => ''get''} %> But it doesn''t work... compile error ./script/../config/../app/views/search/index.rhtml:35: syntax error _erbout.concat(( start_form_tag {:action => ''search''}, {:method =>

Hi guys, I have been working on a form that would use javascript to validate the data before submitting it, and from my view.rhtml I have a statement like this: However such a statement generates a HTML tag that looks like this: <form action="/users/Login?onSubmit=validate%28%29" method="post"> Seems like Rails thinks it is a parameter instead of an option, so

This is probably a dumb question, but is there an easy way to set the focus of a form to the first visible/editable element? I''ve been googling lots and searching documentation and haven''t come up with anything. Help would be appreciated. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

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,

Hi all, What is the correct syntax to add an id attribute to a form tag with the "form_tag" helper? I''ve tried start_form_tag({:controller => ''houses'', :action => ''find''}, {:method => :get, :id => ''search''}) start_form_tag({:controller => ''houses'', :action =>

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 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

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, Rails - newbie here.. I''m setting up an app and am trying to use file_column to upload a picture with an item and I''m running into several problems. (Background: I''m running Locomotive Rails under OS X 10.4.4, and using Safari) I followed the directions to add the necessary items, then found out that I had to add the item to make the form tag be a multipart

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/.

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