sumbit form in rails

[Igor Anic]

Is there a way in rails to choose controller action to which form will
be submitted?

Currently I have something like this:

VIEW:
<%= start_form_tagaction => 'action_chooser', :id => @id %>
....
<%= hidden_field_tag("action_type") %>
<%= link_to_function "action1",
"document.frm.action_type.value='action1'; document.frm.submit()" %> <br>
<%= link_to_function "action2",
"document.frm.action_type.value='action2'; document.frm.submit()" %> <br>

CONTROLLER:

def action_chooser
case action_type
when 'action1'
...
when 'action2'


I would like to have action1 and action2 functions in controller and
somehow choose on the client where to submit.

Thanks,
Igor.

 

[Premshree Pillai]

Um, you can have the various actions as functions within the
Controller class. Why would you want to _choose_ actions from a
function within the controller?

 

[Igor Anic]

Think about that as a web album.
I display multiple images on a page, with check box below each.
User selects some images and chose action: rotate, flip, delete, ...

So I need to post a form with selected check boxes, but the action
depends on the user choice.

 

[Douglas Livingstone]

Sure you can. If you have a field like this:

<inut type="hidden" name="foo" value="bar" />

Then in the controller, you can write:

def action_chooser
case @params['foo']
when 'bar'
...
when 'foobar'

hth,
Douglas

 

[Igor Anic]

Thanks Douglas,

That is exactly the same solution as I'm using now (I describe that in
the first post), but I'm looking fore a more elegant solution (without case)
..
Any ideas?
Igor.

Sure you can. If you have a field like this:

<inut type="hidden" name="foo" value="bar" />

Then in the controller, you can write:

def action_chooser
case @params['foo']
when 'bar'
...
when 'foobar'

hth,
Douglas

Think about that as a web album.
I display multiple images on a page, with check box below each.
User selects some images and chose action: rotate, flip, delete, ...

So I need to post a form with selected check boxes, but the action
depends on the user choice.