I have an action which sends info to the serve through a POST method and I want it to be trigger from an email through a link.
I'v tried this in my email template:
First, specify the post method in a link_to tag:
<%= link_to 'click here', action_url(:id => #model.id), :method => 'post' %>
but the action is triggered with a GET method and I get a routing error.
And second, do it through a form with a hidden field but the csrf token was not recognized:
<%= form_tag action_url, :method => 'post' do %>
<%= hidden_field_tag :id, #model.id %>
<%= submit_tag 'click here' %>
<% end %>
Is there anyway to do this? Or if there isn't, what's my best option?
Couldn't make the post request, so just add the get route for the action.
Positive part: Worked fine, not complications
Negative part: Had to implement some before_filter methods for security due the parameters were passed through the URL
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I am creating blog application in rails. I have a common form for creating and updating blog.
This is view of edit and new.html.erb
<%= render :partial => "form"%>
This is view of _form.html.erb blog:
<%= form_for #blog do |f| %>
<%= f.text_field :title, :placeholder => "Title" %><br>
<%= f.cktext_area :article, :placeholder => "Content", :ckeditor => {:toolbar => "MyToolbar"} %>
<%= f.submit %>
<% end %>
My blog is creating successfully but I am getting error on update action. This is my edit and update action in blog controller:
def edit
#blog = Blog.find_by_slug(params[:id])
end
def update
#blog = Blog.find(params[:id]) || not_found
#blog.update_attributes(params[:blog])
redirect_to "/blogs/#{#blog.slug}"
end
When I open form from edit view, and click on update button, it throws error:
No route matches [PUT] "/blog/2"
My routes.rb is:
resources :blogs
get 'blog', to: 'blogs#index'
get '/blog/:id', to: 'blogs#show', as: 'blog'
I am not getting where it is going wrong. I tried to add "url: blogs_path" in form_for, it removes the error but doesn't save the edit changes.
Can anybody help me where I am going wrong here?
Thank you.
Okay. I dont understand why you want to go against conventions. Anyway, using form_for resource would automatically generate action URL as a PUT to /resources/:id if its an update operation.
So to override this you need to do two things.
update your routes to support this:
Add this line to your routes file:
put 'blog/:id' => 'blogs#update', :as => 'update_blog'
It is important that you put this line above your 'resources :blogs` call.
2 . specify the URL to which the form should submit:
You will need to create the form tag like this:
<%= form_for #blog, :url => update_blog_path(#blog) do |f| %>
Try this and let us know.
I currently have the following link:
<%= link_to 'New campus', new_campus_path(:university_id => #university.id) %>
and the url I get is:
/campus/new?university_id=1
How can I pass the parameter as POST?
I tried adding method => :post, but no luck there. I appreciate any help. Thanks.
The method parameter of link_to should work - what exactly was wrong with it?
<%= link_to 'New campus', new_campus_path(:university_id => #university.id), method: :post %>
Alternatively, you can try button_to
<%= button_to 'New campus', new_campus_path(:university_id => #university.id), method: :post %>
Edit: in both of these cases, the paremeter will still be added to the query string, but as long as the HTTP verb is correct, this shouldn't make a difference for rails, because access to both is done through the params hash.
If it's really important to not include the parameter, you can create the form yourself and add a hidden field:
<%= form_tag new_campus_path, method: :post %>
<%= hidden_field_tag :university_id, #university.id %>
<%= submit_tag 'New campus' %>
<% end %>
I don't think there's a shortcut for this in rails
Edit 2: As an aside, if I'm guessing correctly, this link is supposed to open a form for creating a new campus with a default university selected. If that's the case, you should really be using GET, because it's just a read action that doesn't cause any side effects.
You can use JQuery. Like this :
$("#my_link").click(function() {
$.ajax({
type: 'POST',
url: '/campus/new?university_id=1'
});
});
You can see the doc here : http://api.jquery.com/click/ and here : http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.post/.
I've ran into a weird problem in Rails. When I try and submit a search query with the following form on my Uploads controller:
<%= form_tag ({:controller => "uploads", :action => 'find_uploads'}), :method => "get" do %>
<%=h text_field_tag :search, params[:search], :id => 'search_field' %>
<br />
<%= submit_tag "Search", :style=>"display:inline;" %>
<% end %>
I get redirected to the following url and error page:
/uploads/find_uploads?utf8=✓&search=bot&commit=Search
ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound in UploadsController#show
Couldn't find Upload with id=0
My find_uploads route: get 'uploads/find_uploads' => "uploads#find_uploads"
And when I did I rake routes this is what I got:
uploads_find_uploads GET /uploads/find_uploads(.:format) {:controller=>"uploads", :action=>"find_uploads"}
Everything seems to be in order... not sure why it's not working out as expected. For debugging purposes I dropped breakpoints in both my find_uploads and show actions and neither of them were reached so this error message must be lying to me as the UploadsController show action is never called!
This form is being rendered on my index page if it counts for anything.
I think it's taking find_uploads for an id.
Declare your routes like that:
resources :uploads do
collection do
get :find_uploads
end
end
ps: currently, when you do rake routes, /uploads/find_uploads is after /uploads/:id right?
This question is a follow up to this previous question: Ruby on Rails: Custom actions
As a follow up, what would be the syntax to use a custom action in a form_for? For my app, I have a partial called _invite_form.html.erb, and set the form to have a :url specification that I thought would link the form to the invite action on the Users controller:
<div id = "invite_form">
<h1>Invite</h1>
<%= form_for(invited, :url => invite_user_path) do |f| %>
<div class="field">
<%= f.text_field :email, :class => "inputform round", :placeholder => "email" %>
</div>
<div class="actions">
<%= f.submit "Invite", :class => "submit_button round" %>
</div>
<% end %>
</div>
This partial is called on certain pages, and this error is given:
"No route matches {:action=>"invite", :controller=>"users"}"
In my routes.rb file I have included the appropriate lines:
resources :users do
member do
get :invite
post :invite
end
end
Why is it that the route doesn't work? How do I change these files to make the form use the action "Invite" on the Users controller?
** Forgot to mention earlier: I defined invited in the Users helper: users_helper.rb:
module UsersHelper
def invited
#invited = User.new(params[:user])
end
end
As you don't have a persistent User just yet, make this a collection operation by:
Changing invite_user_path to invite_users_path in your controller
Changing member do to collection do in your routes
invite_user_path expects a user as an argument. Try invite_user_path(invited). You will also need to save the user before you can compute a path to it.
To experiment, go into rails console and see the difference between the following:
app.invite_user_path
app.invite_user_path(User.first)
app.invite_user_path(User.new)
I'm new to Rails and I've just spent another hour Googling and not finding an example.
So I have a simple form that I need to submit to an API. So I tried submitting it to the API directly but got advice that I do it in my app so I can do something with the results. Anyway, here's my simple form:
<%= form_tag(:action => 'submit') do |f| %>
<%= f.text_field :email, :value => "Your email address...", :class => "text", :id => "email", :name => 'email',
:onFocus => "change(this,'#222222'); this.value=''; this.onfocus=null;",
:size => "26" %>
<%= f.hidden_field :ref_code, :id => 'ref_code', :name => 'ref_code', :value => #referralid %>
<%= submit_tag "Enter To Win", :class => "button-positive submit" %>
<% end %>
Everything I'm seeing has forms that that use a model, I have no need to persist this data, just pass it on to the API.
So my thought was I just create an action in the home controller, where this page lives and have the action submit to it but I get a RoutingError and it's: No route matches {:action=>"submit", :controller=>"home"}
So what do I need to put in the Routes.rb? I tried:
namespace :home do
resources :submit
end
No Joy... I'm sure it's simple but I just can't find the right example.
I think that you should have a look at the ruby guides, it's very well explained (but I don't think it talks about API) and it will save you a lot of time in the future, I swear.
Not sure what you mean but I see some wired stuff, so I hope to be useful, but if you're following some tutorials from the net let us know the link.
Basically what I do is always to call an action of a controller (MVC), following this way you should have a controller (?? apis_controller ??) and call one action of it.
So you want to use form_tag instead of form_for because you're not addressing a model, therefor you want to get rid of f. and use suffix _tag (api).
<%= form_tag(send_api_path) do %>
<%= text_field_tag :email, "Your email address..." %>
<%= hidden_field_tag :ref_code, #referralid %>
<%= hidden_field_tag :api_name, 'your_api_name' %>
<%= submit_tag "Enter To Win" %>
<% end %>
Then, in your apis_controller.rb you create an action send where you send and manage your request.
#apis_controller.rb
def send
# TODO: your code here
end
Another thing is to set the routes, something like
#routes.rb
match 'apis/send' => 'apis#send', :as => :send_api
I'm sure this is not 100% working code, but it should be useful
How to call the api? I had I fast look and found this.
When you ask for help it's always good to attach the error you get, this makes it easier for people to understand the problem.