I'm judging from your response that you would you argue that using a
Rails view helper inside another view helper is wrong then? I would
say this isn't crazy its just trying to DRY up a small form (just a
button) I am using in lots of different places.

I found the solution in the end.

module MyHelper

 def button_thing_attempt_2
   with_output_buffer(form_for(Button.new) do |f|
     concat(f.submit 'Push')
   end)
 end

end

RobL

On 27 November 2010 03:16, daze <[email protected]> wrote:
> Whoa whoa whoa.  form_for is for the VIEW.  It generates html.
> Specifcally, it generates <form> tags and etc...
>
>
> On Nov 26, 2:35 pm, RobL <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I'm having an awful lot of trouble trying to use form_for inside a
>> helper. Any ideas how to get this to work?
>>
>> module MyHelper
>>
>>    def button_thing_attempt_1
>>      form_for(Button.new) do |f|
>>       f.submit 'Push'
>>     end
>>   end
>>
>>   def button_thing_attempt_2
>>     with_output_buffer(form_for(Button.new) do |f|
>>       f.submit 'Push'
>>     end)
>>   end
>>
>> end
>>
>> While I get attempt 2 to render the form, the submit button is
>> missing. I'm just not quite sure how to really capture the complete
>> output of form_for.
>>
>> Many thanks for any help here
>>
>> RobL
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