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Rails form multiple submits to multiple controller actions

Posted 11 September 2006 @ 4pm | Tagged thoughts

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Say you have a form that can have multiple actions. For example, you have a list of emails and you need to do the following: confirm, resend confirmation, make primary (think Paypal). I’ve created a simple helper that just sets the form’s action on the button’s click event so the form can get submitted to different actions on the controller:

# lang ruby
def submit_tag_to_action(value, action, options={})
  submit_tag(value, options.merge!(:onclick => "this.form.action='#{action}'"))
end

### usage:
submit_tag_to_action "myButton", "myAction"

I cannot get this to work, as it won’t pass an extra :id param that I need.

Original form was something like (preview not working because don’t pass form parameters):
‘update’, :id => @article %>
‘edit_form’ %>

‘preview’, :id => @article %>
‘list’ %>

Tried the following, but save and preview won’t work:

‘edit_form’ %>
@article %>
@article %>
‘list’ %>

How do I add an extra param?

Karen can you please email me at yan@pritzker.ws, I think wordpress killed the formatting of your comments. Or try to surround them by ‘pre’ tags.

Thank you it works perfect