Question

I am trying to get this form to submit correctly. Here’s what I have so far:

<% form_for(:user, :url => update_user_setting_path, :remote => true, :html => {:method => :post, :class => "search_form general_form"}) do |f| %> 

and the button renders with this code:

<li><%= link_to raw("<span class='button approve'><span><span>SAVE</span></span></span>"), :action => 'create' %></li>

I am using action create, is this correct?

Here is the rendered form tag:

<form method="post" data-remote="true" class="search_form general_form" action="/settings/2/update_user" accept-charset="UTF-8">

What am I missing? Thanks for your help!

Answer 1

No, you are not using link_to properly. You need to use a submit tag to submit your form, not a link_to tag, for example:

<% form_for(:user, :url => update_user_setting_path, :remote => true, :html => {:method => :post, :class => "search_form general_form"}) do |f| %>
  ...
  <li><%= f.submit "Save" %></li>

If you want to use a text link you’ll have to have javascript submit the form. For example, if you are using jQuery you could do the following:

<%= link_to 'Save', "#", :onclick=>"$('.search_form').submit()" %>