Question

Hi on submission of the form ‘put’ method is used to send data from form to sinatra.the put method is defined in app.rb put method makes a call to erb file which displays the two values.

but nothing is being displayed could somebody help please.

put '/form' do

@name = params[:FirstName]
@last = params[:LastName]

erb :formact
end

form

<form name="biodata" action="form" method="put" onsubmit="validateForm()">
code
</form>

Thank you

Answer 1

I don’t think PUT is a valid method for form submission. Check your HTTP server log and see if the requests are actually coming as PUT requests — the browser might be sending them as GET, which is the default.

Anyway, you should probably just use POST instead.