How to render one association automatically with cocoon - ruby-on-rails

I have cocoon working with nested form, if you click add field link it inserts input fields. How do I render first input automatically, and then insert additional inputs when "add field" is clicked ?

In your controller, use this code. In the code below, jobs is a model and profile accepts_nested_attributes_for jobs. Replace #profile with whatever your form is for. The 2nd line is what will build the form fields, unless form fields already exist.
def new
#profile = current_user.profile
1.times {#profile.jobs.build} unless current_user.profile.jobs.any?
end
You may need to change times to time since its singular. In fact, you may be able to get rid of the times method altogether and do:
def new
#profile = current_user.profile
#profile.jobs.build unless current_user.profile.jobs.any?
end

The quick and dirty solution is to just use jQuery (which Cocoon requires anyways) to click Cocoon's "add item" button when the page loads:
$(document).ready(function() { $(".add_fields").click() } );
I use this in my "new" views, but not in "edit" views, since there may already be some nested items and I don't want to make assumptions. But you could also use script to count the nested item forms and conditionally show the "new item" fields.

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Correct way to have multiple submit buttons on single form in rails

I have a page in my rails application that requires me to have multiple submit buttons on a single form. To give you an idea of what I am trying to do, I have a shopping cart, which is a table of items. Each item has an order button, and a remove button. There is also a checkbox associated with each item, so that multiple items can be selected, and then submitted for order by a Button at the bottom of my table.
Currently, each of these three buttons have a different "name" property associated with them. In my controller I have code similar to the following:
if params[:remove]
#do stuff to remove item from shopping cart, then re-direct back to shopping cart
elsif params[:order_one]
#do stuff to order item, then render a confirm page
else
#do stuff to order multiple items, then render confirm page
end
But this seems messy to me. Is there a better "railsy" way to implement this?
Also, I am currently not using any JS/Ajax in my pages, and I would like to eventually have the shopping cart be a div that is rendered via Ajax. When a user clicks the remove button, I would like the form to be submitted remotely, so that the shopping cart div can be re-rendered via Ajax once the item is removed from the shopping cart - will this be possible having one form that has a button submitting some forms via ajax, and some forms without ajax?
This is a vast subject, but for an ajax delete button you can start like this. In your table view, use :
<tr id="tr_<%= item.id %>">
...
<%= link_to 'delete', item, method: :delete, remote: true %>
</tr>
You must handle the ajax call on destroy route in your items_controller.rb:
def destroy
#item= Item.destroy(params[:id])
respond_to do |format|
format.html { redirect_to items_url }
format.js
end
end
Create a new destroy.js.erb file in your items views folder and put in it :
$('#your_table').remove('#tr_<%= #item.id %>');
Then when you click on the remove button, it will call the destroy action in your controller. As the button is defined as remote, rails will automagically perform an ajax request and won't reload the page. Your controller will render the according js view in which you then remove the row from your table.
As I said, this is only the beginning and it can be done much better on the javascript side. Also note that I didn't check the code.
Also have a look at http://railscasts.com/episodes/136-jquery-ajax-revised?view=asciicast for a more in depth explanation.

how to add a `preview` action to resources?

I am looking for the right approach to include a preview action between new and create actions.
Let's assume I have the following:
resources :users
By default, when the form is submitted:
if new, call create action;
if edit, call update action.
In this way, I can use the same form (partial) for new and create, which is great!
How can I configure the resources to include a preview between actions. I mean, forcing new to call preview and then preview to call create.
I could add a new route/action and point the form for that action, however the same form cannot be used for new and edit.
There is a way to configure the resources to do that?
Have a look at this railscast: multibutton form, it shows a form with both a 'preview' and 'submit' button, maybe that's something you might want to do.
By the way, couldn't you use the same form by passing locals to the partial? For example:
<%= form_for #profile, url: dynamic_path do |f| %>
...
<% end %>
<%= render 'form', dynamic_path: profile_preview_path %>
you have several ways to do this:
you change the url of the form to your preview action (for which you have to add a route).
you use your create action for preview and create:
i.e. you add a parameter (like ':go_to_preview') to the form submit request. if you find it in the controller you render preview.
when the user wants to confirm the preview, you submit the data again (without that parameter) and this time create the record.
there are also 2 more dynamic possibilities:
you create the preview in real-time - if that is possible (like here on SO) - and use just the create action,
a variation of the first option: when the user submits the form, you send an ajax post request to a preview action, render a partial and include it on the page, then while your user still has the form he just filled, the user decides if she wants to modify or submit definitely.
I would suggest adding a DateTime column "finished_at", "published_on", etc... whatever is appropriate for your domain.
Using blog posts as an example:
scope :published, where("published_on IS NOT NULL")
scope :draft, where(:published_on => nil)
Use the scopes and new field where appropriate to limit the follow up actions.
This approach gives you more than you asked for :
a way to limit processing based on "state"
Data on creation times versus publishing times

Rails form redirecting to 'new' action

What I am trying to do is build a form in which the user fills some of the fields for a new Publication, and takes you to the New Publication action, with those fields already filled in, so the user fills the rest.
I got the controller part covered, but I cant find how to use form_for for this, as its not exactly associated to the model (only some of the necessary fields are in the first form).
you could do
form_tag new_publication_path()
Not necessarily the best way to do this, but you can hide some of the fields in the form depending on whether the model id is valid. For example (in haml):
- if #model.id #only shows up if the model has been saved.
= f.text_field :field_name, ...
This way you can use the usual new, and then when the model has been saved, just redirect to the 'edit' action and the rest of the fields show up.

Rails: Prevent duplicate inserts due to pressing back button and save again

Think about a simple Rails scaffold application with a "new" action containing a form to add records to a database with a "save" button. After the "create" action the controller redirects to the "show" action, where the user can use the "edit" link to edit the just inserted record. So far, so simple.
But if the user instead uses the browser's back button after creating a record to get back to the "new" action, the browser shows the form with the values the user just has entered. Now he changes some values and presses "save" again. He thinks that this would change the record, but of course this creates a new record.
What is the preferred way to prevent such duplicate entries? I'm looking for a general solution, maybe based on cookies or JavaScript.
After some investigations I found a suitable solution based on cookies. Here it is:
In the controller's "new" action, a timestamp with the current time is generated and rendered in the form as hidden field. When the user submits the form, this timestamps gets back to the controller's "create" action. After creating the record, this timestamp is stored in the session cookie. If the user goes back to the "new" form via browser's back button, he gets a stale form, which means its timestamp is older than the one stored in the cookie. This is checked before creating the record and results in an error message.
Here is the controller code:
def new
#post = Post.new
#stale_form_check_timestamp = Time.now.to_i
end
def create
#post = Post.new(params[:post])
if session[:last_created_at].to_i > params[:timestamp].to_i
flash[:error] = 'This form is stale!'
render 'new'
else
#post.save!
#stale_form_check_timestamp = Time.now.to_i
session[:last_created_at] = #stale_form_check_timestamp
end
end
And here the form code:
- form_for #post do |f|
= tag :input, :type => 'hidden', :name => 'timestamp', :value => #stale_form_check_timestamp
= f.input :some_field
= .......
When I had that same problem I created this little gem that solves it. When the user hits back, he's redirected to the edit_path of the record, instead of going back to the new_path.
https://github.com/yossi-shasho/redirect_on_back
You can do something like:
def create
#user = User.new(params[:user])
if result = #user.save
redirect_on_back_to edit_user_path(#user) # If user hits 'back' he'll be redirected to edit_user_path
redirect_to #user
end
end
Your model validations will ensure things like email addresses are unique, but I think this is more about usability and experience than anything else.
Say you are talking about an account creation form. First of all, your form submit button should say something like "Create Account", instead of just "Submit". Then depending on whether it was successful or not, show a message like either "Account successfully created" or "There were errors creating your account". If the user sees this message, they will know what happened.
Sure you can't prevent someone from hitting the back button and hitting enter again, but you should design for the majority of use cases. If they happen to hit back, they will see the button that says "Create Account". You should probably have some other text on the page that says "Please sign up for a new account to get started".
Just my $0.02.
Session or cookie may result in sides effects.
I totally agree : if there is a way to validate with your model, it's the safest way to prevent duplicate records.
Still you can do 2 things. Prevent browser caching : fields will appear empty in the form when the user clicks on the back button. And disable the "Create" button when clicked.
= f.submit "Create", :disable_with => "Processing..."
When your user will press the back button the button will be disabled.
You can use validators to make sure that no duplicate values are inserted. In this case validates_uniqueness_of :field
If you for example want to prevent users from having the same email address you could put the following code in your user model.
validates_uniqueness_of :email
This checks the column for any previous entries that are the same as the one your trying to inert.
Good luck
base on #Georg Ledermann answer i make this little snip of code for redirect to edit path if the user hits back and then hits create.
#objects_controller.rb
def new
#object = Object.new
#stale_form_check = Time.now.to_i
end
def create
#object = Object.new(object_params)
#function defined in application_controller.rb
redirect_to_on_back_and_create(#object)
end
#application_controller.rb
private
def redirect_to_on_back_and_create(object)
if session[:last_stale].present? and session[:last_stale_id].present? and session[:last_stale].to_i == params[:stale_form_check].to_i
redirect_to edit_polymorphic_path(object.class.find(session[:last_stale_id].to_i)), alert: "Este #{object.model_name.human} ya ha sido creado, puedes editarlo a continuación"
else
if object.save
session[:last_stale] = params[:stale_form_check].to_i
session[:last_stale_id] = object.id
redirect_to object, notice: "#{object.model_name.human} Creado con éxito"
else
render :new
end
end
end
And finally add the #stale_form_check param to your form
<%= hidden_field_tag :stale_form_check, #stale_form_check %>
You could always abstracts this method where you need it, but in this way you could avoid lots of repetition in your project if you need this behavior in many parts
Hope it helps the next one, i used to use redirect_on_back gem, but it didn't work for me this time, the _usec param that this gem uses, was always been reset, so it can't compare in every time when it was need
Here's something that worked for me.
You will need to do 2 things: Create a method in your controller and add a conditional statement in that same controller under your 'create' method.
1) Your method should return the total count of that object from that user.
EX:
def user
current_user.object.count
end
2) Add conditional statement in your 'create' method.
EXAMPLE:
def create
#object = Object.create(object_params)
#object.save if user == 0
redirect_to x_path
end
I hope this helps!
Add html: { autocomplete: "off" } in your form_for like this:
<%= form_for #object, url: xxx_path, html: { autocomplete: "off" } do |f| %>

Posting a form through popup in Rails

I have a model called Details, and two controller methods new and create. New method displays a form to create Details (in new.html.erb), which gets posted to the Create method that saves it. (when it succesffully saves, it it renders the new.html.erb file with the details.) This works as expected.
Now i want a separate page with a link to fill in these details. I want the click to do the intended work through a popup, example redbox. When you click on that link, a popup should show the form, whose submit should post the form, and if it is successfully done, then refresh the original page. If the post is unsaved, then the same form should show the errors. What do i need to do to make it work in Ror? I guess i need some stuff to go in new.js.rjs and maybe create.js.rjs, but i can't really figure out what to put in those files.
Redbox updates the page's dom to add a div at the end of it. So your form is a part of the main page.
So if you add a form tag in this redbox, all your page will be reloaded as there's only one.
So you add anywhere in your page (preferably at the end) :
<div id="redbox" style="display: none;">
<%= form_for #details do %>
# Whatever form fields you want here
<% end -%>
</div>
You do a link that'll open the redbox :
<%= link_to_redbox 'Open The Details Form', 'redbox' %>
This will display your redbox with your form.
And as it is the same page, not a new windows, when you'll validate your form, it'll reload the all of it.
I used a link_to_remote_redbox for this, which on clicking, fetches the form rendered by the new method call in a popup widnow. it submits to the create function and it is now working. actually i had previously made it work without ajax and i was having difficulty in making it work with ajax. the problem was solved once i made separate partials for ajax calls, and doing:
respond_to do |format|
format.js { render :template => 'detail/ajax_template'}
...
end
I provided different templates for both create and new method calls, used the :html => {:id => 'some-id'} in form and the :update => {:some-id} to replace the form with the message that it worked correctly.
So I didnt know that i needed separate templates for the different styles of forms, and that i needed to use the :update option to replace the form when i asked the above question.

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