I know that link_to uses get action by default and also you can change the method to post by passing :method => :post to link_to function, but it does not seem to work. Here is the syntax that I am using:
= link_to "Export" export_path(:data_array => d_array), :method => 'post'
But this does not seem to work. The array is being passed by as a query parameter which I can see in the URL box and it bombs my application since it blows the string length limit in the url string.
Try using form instead:
= form_tag export_path do
- d_array.each do |val|
= hidden_field_tag 'data_array[]', val
= submit_tag 'Export'
Notice that in a controller params[:data_array] will be an array of strings.
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I have a select box that allows multiple values, to filter the results on the page. When I select multiple, the Parameters that are submitted look like this:
Parameters: {"categories"=>["books", "films"], "commit"=>"Submit", "id"=>"87"}
When I am returned to the page, the URL is:
http://localhost:3000/87/projects?categories%5B%5D=books&categories%5B%5D=films&commit=Submit
The URL I would like to return is:
http://localhost:3000/87/projects?categories=books,films
How can I return these params[:categories] as a comma-separated string in the URL? Also, is it possible to remove the "&commit=Submit" from the URL?
Here is my full form code:
<%= form_with url: project_path(#project), local: true, method: :get, skip_enforcing_utf8: true do |form| %>
<%= form.select(:categories, #categories.map {|category| [category.name,category.slug]}, options = { selected: params[:categories], include_blank: "Select Categories", include_hidden: false }, html_options = { multiple: true }) %>
<%= form.submit 'Submit' %>
There's a couple JS & Rails way to do what you want. I can think of a quick and easy one using rails only: Redirecting the URL you are getting to another route with the data parsed as you want it. Like this -->
Assuming this is your route to project_path : get 'project', to: 'project#reroute', as: :project
You can go to your reroute method in the project controller and parse the data you got.
project_controller.rb
class ProjectController < ApplicationController
def reroute
redirect_to your_path(categories: params[:categories].join(','))
end
end
This converts your categories array to a string with your values separated by commas. It is not an array anymore. and it also removes "&commit=Submit" like you wanted.
If you dislike the rails routing method, you can also make your submit button to run some JS functions that builds the url string as you want it. For example <%= submit_tag , :onclick => "return buildUrl();" %>
Having this said, I must say I agree with Edward's comment, the url encoded format is standard and works out of the box, no need for all the additional rerouting and parsing. Im pretty sure whatever you need the data for can be used with the URL encoded format with proper parsing.
How can I add hash map element with a key that contains "-"?
Like this:
<%= button_to_function 'Cancel','cancelRemove("cancelEmail")', :data-dismiss=>'modal', :class=>'btn' %>
I get an error:
undefined local variable or method 'dismiss' for #<ActionView::Base:0x3482fed>
While :'data-dismiss' works, with data attributes you can also do
:data => { :dismiss => 'modal' }
Additional data-prefixed html attributes can be included in the same hash. So for example on another link you might do:
:data => { :remote => true, :method => 'delete' }
which would add to the link the html attributes data-remote="true" data-method="delete".
While the hash syntax is less compact for a single attribute, it's nice when you've got more than one html5 data attribute. And it's arguably a bit more rails-ish.
Just rename it to:
<%= button_to_function 'Cancel','cancelRemove("cancelEmail")', :'data-dismiss'=>'modal', :class=>'btn' %>
While I wouldn't normally create a page like this, please know this is a current constraint I can't change.
The page has a checkbox form as well as a table with links for THs that sort the table. I need to construct the TH link in a way that it retains the checkbox items already checked.
Checkbox constructed in View with Haml as:
= form_tag movies_path, :method => :get do
Include:
- #all_ratings.each do |rating|
= rating
= check_box_tag "ratings[#{rating}]", "1", (#ratingsarray.include?(rating) ? true : false)
= hidden_field_tag 'sort', #sort
= submit_tag 'Refresh'
Then for the table it has this for the TH
%th{:class => #classrelease_date}
%a#release_date_header= link_to "Release Date", movies_path(:sort=>'release_date', :params[:ratings]=>params[:ratings])
Ultimately I want the URL like "/moves/?sort=release_date&Ratings[PG]=1&Ratings[G]=1" where I am spitting out the ratings params back to the page as part of the URL. Or how to I pass the ratings params in any part of page where the existing controller code will read it.
Existing controller code access ratings from checkbox:
params[:ratings]
Since movies_path accepts hash as parameter, you can tailor params and then generate the URL with movies_path(params). Generally, you may need to remove "controller" and "action" from params.
For example I have this code:
<%= link_to "Start", start_path(:id=>1,:box=>1)%>
the id and the box are parameters right?
and for example, it generated this url: http://localhost:3000/start?id=1&box=1
How can I add a string to it, to make look like this:
http://localhost:3000/start?id=1&box=1#box_1
Use the :anchor key:
<%= link_to "Start", start_path(:id => 1, :box => 1, :anchor => 'box_1')
And to answer your first question, yes, id and box are parameters. They are passed in to the request as part of the params hash.
In my Rails app, I need to set a value for a custom data-* attribute on an anchor tag. However, hashes can't have hyphens if I'm not mistaken. I essentially want to do this:
<%= link_to 'Example', example_path, :class => 'something', :data-id => '15' %>
:data-id is not valid, however. What can I do to work around this?
IIRC, for such purposes hashes and strings are equivalent, so you can use "data-id" instead of :data-id. Never checked for this particular method, though, so no guarantees.
I think in Rails 3 you can do
link_to "Click Here", root_path, :data => { :id => #model.id }
for all data attributes.