Question

For Forms which updates models my datepicker is working and included as follows:

= f.input :starts_at, :as => :datepicker

now I want to use the Datepicker in a Search Form which passes several search params to the controller (not using a model). I’m no sure how the input is defined with text_field_tag or else.

= form_tag some_action_path, method: "get", class: "someclass" do |f|
    = text_field_tag ???...

Answer 1

found the solution, i simply have to pass the paramname as id to the datepicker js

= text_field_tag :starts_at
:javascript
  $(function() {
    $( "#starts_at" ).datepicker();
  })