Mukund wrote:
> Create a form without a submit tag. Put in another control on the
> web page that does $('id_of_my_form').submit(); using a javascript
> onclick event or whatever.
>
> Regards,
> Mukund
Actually, the form doesn't have a submit tag in it, but 2 selection
lists and a text field (it's a search/filter form). The submission
happens when you hit enter whilst inside the text field -- I think it's
something most people do when searching something > think of every visit
you made to a search engine's page... Rails form_for might have this
built in, since it immediately looks for 'create' action when hitting
enter inside the text field.
I thought about simply redirecting it to the same action that filters
the form (which is actually called via observe_form tag nearby). I'm
very new to rails, so I'm not sure how to call the action while
retaining the same view. Here's a brief rundown of my code:
# view
<% form_for :person, :html => { :id => 'people_form' } -%>
<%= f.select :id, @people.collect {|p| [p.name, p.id]} %>
<%= f.select :gender, [['Male','M'],['Female','F']] %>
<%= f.text_field :search, :size => 20 %>
<% end -%>
<%= observe_form :people_form, :frequency => 2, :update =>
'people_table',
:url => { :action => 'search_form', :only_path => false
} %>
<div id="people_table">
<table>
<%= render :partial => 'person' %> <!--people rows are drawn from
here -->
</table>
</div>
# controller
def search_form
#... get all search params and store in cond
@people = Person.find(:all, :conditions => cond)
render :partial => 'person' if request.xml_http_request?
end
How would I call the search_form function on form submit resulting in
the same view being rendered (similar to what observe_form does)? I
tried adding :action => 'search_form' to the form_for tag, but it then
looks for a view of the same name..
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