I'm using formtastic to collect information from a form and post dirctly to an external site.
I have no problem generating the form itself. However, since this is being submitted to an external site, they require that each input field have the specific IDs they specify, eg email or last_name -- not the closest Formtastic form, eg _email_input or _last_name_input.
I've looked at the Formtastic v1.2.3 code and I'm 90% sure the answer is "sorry, can't do that." I figured it couldn't hurt to check if I'm missing something. I would like some way to specify the ID completely, as in:
= semantic_form_for('', :url => "https://external_site.com/handler, :method => "post") do |form|
= form.input :last_name, :id => "last_name"
[etc]
Is this possible?
(I will note that I recognize that another, arguably superior approach would be to create an appropriate controller, sanity check the parameters locally, and dispatch the remote call from within the app only when it's well formed; however, that's not what I'm trying to do at the moment.)
Firstly i think you need to use semantic_fields_for for non-model forms. Next, to pass ids to each field, you can use the input_html options to specify them. for eg
form.input :email, :input_html => {:name => 'email', :id => 'email' }
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I am not very familiar with ActiveAdmin or rails in general, so sorry if I use some incorrect phrasing.
I have a model for an Athlete, which has an attribute "notes". This is described in the permit_params of the athlete.rb.
On an additional page, I have the following:
f.input :athlete, :collection => Athlete.all.sort_by(&:last_name), :required => true
I would like to find a way to, if the :notes is not empty, display it.
If I could display it as a "row" on the form, that would be great.
Thanks!
I'm implementing select2 tagging with a has_many through relationship. My implementation has 2 different scenarios.
The select menu allows multiple (tagging) but does not allow on the fly input into the select menu.
Same as above but uses ajax to allow the user to enter new select values on the fly.
Scenario 1 works well for tagging. Scenario 2 seems to work (can perform tagging) but does not save the values. My problem seems to come down to my my input elements for the scenarios.
Scenario 1 uses:
<%= f.association :repairers, label_method: :rep_name, value_method: :id, include_blank: true, label: 'Repairer'%>
and when the form is submitted gives params similar to:
"repairer_ids"=>["", "1132", "1131"]
Scenario 2 uses:
<%= f.hidden_field :repair_type_id, :class => "required on-the-fly-select select"%>
and uses a lot of js code to implement on the fly input for the select menu. When the form is submitted the data will look like:
"repair_type_id"=>"5688,5690"
So with scenario 2 the ids are not submitted as an array. I have tried changing the select to:
<%= hidden_field_tag("repair_item[repair_type_ids][]", "", :id => "repair_item_repair_type_ids", :class => "required on-the-fly-select select") %>
but then the relevant param is submitted incorrectly and doesn't save:
"repair_type_ids"=>["5688,5690"]
Is it possible to get the params from Scenario 2 to submit in the format that Rails made the params in Scenario 1?
Try String#split
repair_type_id = "5688,5690"
repair_type_id.split(',')
=> ["5688", "5690"]
It's Better to use this split method in controller while saving the data on particular attribute for this instead of on hidden_tag.
Edit:
If you want to convert string in plural then use pluralize same as for singularize
2.0.0-p481 :010 > 'cat'.pluralize
=> "cats"
2.0.0-p481 :011 > 'dogs'.singularize
=> "dog"
I have a Post model which I'm accessing through ActiveAdmin. It's also taggable using the acts_as_taggable_on gem. So the admin can add, edit or delete tags from a specific Post.
The normal way to add the tagging functionality for the resource in your admin panel is by doing this in admin/posts.rb:
ActiveAdmin.register Post do
form do |f|
f.inputs "Details", :multipart => true do
f.input :tag_list
# and the other irrelevant fields goes here
end
f.buttons
end
end
However, I want to have the tags selected from a multiple select form field and not being entered manually in a text field (like it is with the code above). So I've tried doing this:
f.input :tag_list, :as => :select,
:multiple => :true,
:collection => ActsAsTaggableOn::Tag.all
but it doesn't work as expected. This actually creates new tags with some integer values for names and assigns them to that Post. Someone told me that extra code is needed for this to work.
Any clues on how this is done? Here's my model just in case: http://pastie.org/3911123
Thanks in advance.
Instead of
:collection => ActsAsTaggableOn::Tag.all
try
:collection => ActsAsTaggableOn::Tag.pluck(:name)
Setting the collection to Tag.all is going to tag your posts with the tag's ID, since that's how tags are identified by default (that's where the integer values for names are coming from). map(&:name) tells the form builder to use the tag's name instead.
I am able to render a form in HAML but I am not sure how to validate it.
Here is what I have so far:
#disclosure-form-container
= form_for([:mobile,#disclosure], :html => {:id => "disclosure-form", :remote => true}) do |f|
%p
=f.label :display_as, (t :select_disclosure_type)
=f.select :display_as, options_from_collection_for_select(Disclosure.basics, :display_as, :name, f.object.display_as)
%p
=f.label :notes, (t :notes)
=f.text_area :notes, :class => "#{validation_rules(:free_disclosure_notes)}", :rows => 5 , :id => "disclosure_notes_entry"
= buttonset({:submit_label => (t "buttons.influencers.disclosures.create"),:submit_css_class => "call-to-action",:cancel_url => "#",:direction => :left_to_right})
This renders a form with two fields and a button to click submit. But what if people just enter submit without doing much? Where do I put the validation code and how do I validate this form?
Thanks!
A user enters data that should be saved in your model and then stored in your DB. So it's naturally to implement validation on model-level. Rails allows you to create validation for models easy. Here you can read about it. In a few words: adding few lines to your model prevent it to be saved with inconsistent data.
But you can in addition to model-level validation use client-side validation: i.e., data will be checked before sending to server. This way user don't have to submit form to find out that he forgot to fill some required field. But of course this can't be any guaranty as it's easy to bypass. Here more about client-side validation.
So, as you see, Haml can't help you with validations. It's a great tool, but not for this purpose.
In your Disclosure model, you need:
class Disclosure < ActiveRecord::Base
validates_presence_of :display_as, :notes
...
end
Then you can include error messages at the top of your form with something like:
- if #disclosure.errors.any?
%ul.errors
- #disclosure.errors.full_messages.each do |msg|
%li= msg
Or if you use Simple Form you get automatic validation messages inline, and your form would just look like this:
= simple_form_for #disclosure do |f|
= f.input :display_as
= f.input :notes
= f.submit
And you're done.
Note, as Jdoe pointed out, HAML has nothing to do with detecting validations, it only displays what the server tells it. The server is what determines whether there are validation errors.
If you want to try and come up with the equivalent of something like this client side you could give your form an id and do something like this (in CoffeeScript):
jQuery ->
$('form#disclosures').submit (event) ->
unless $('input#display_as').val().length > 0 && $('input#notes').val().length > 0
event.preventDefault()
$(this).append('<div class="error">You must select 'display' and enter notes.</div>')
Could not find the answer to the question on how to split forms in rails in multiple smaller forms.
Say you have a big form with
firstname
lastname
gender
age
email
country
city
state
I have a validate_presence for all these fields. So when I create several forms like:
= simple_form_for #profile, :wrapper => :inline do |f|
= f.label "firstname"
= f.select :firstname
without all the values from the top list (first name,last name,etc) I get errors because the splitter form does not contain those values and they need to be present at first to make this work at all.
What would be a good way to have several forms but with only a portion of the values and update them without getting the issue described above?
If you want the ability to update pieces of the model then you need to split the validations into pieces as well.
One way to do it is to have a virtual attribute in your model that gets set by a hidden field in each form. E.g you may have a form:
= simple_form_for #profile, :wrapper => :inline do |f|
= f.hidden :form, :input_html => {:value => 'names'}
= f.label "firstname"
= f.select :firstname
Then in your model:
class Profile
attr_accessor :form
validates :firstname, :presence => true, :if => lambda { |o| o.form == "names" }
end
The validation will run only if the change was submitted from the right form.
Check out conditional validation guide: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/active_record_validations_callbacks.html#conditional-validation for more details.
Other way is a multistep form as suggested by apneadiving: http://railscasts.com/episodes/217-multistep-forms This uses the same technique as in the first example by having a current_step attribute, but the progression is linear.
You're asking for a multi step form I guess.
Look at this screencast, you'll find conditional validations which are the way to proceed.