form_for results in a POST operation. You are checking for request.xhr? in your controller to render the partial. Use remote_form_for instead to get a XHR request.
Pressing an enter key in a text field doesn't submit a form. The tags don't add that in. Regards, Mukund On Jan 7, 4:15 pm, Shilo Ayalon <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.. > > -- > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
