Question

I am working with search forms and want to use GET request in a ruby on rails form . I use something like this

1) in view

form_tag(:action => "actionxyz", :method => "get") 

2) In routes

get 'actionxyz', :controller => :controllerabc

When the request is inspected , the following is seen

<form accept-charset="UTF-8" action="/actionxyz?method=get" method="post"><div style="margin:0;padding:0;display:inline">

Further more in the url I see /actionxyz?method=get and not the search string that I have provided. The search string provided appears in the POST data.
Does that mean that rails is not using GET method or I am wrong in my interpretation.
Please clarify ..

Answer 1

It’s interpreting the method get as part of the route the form should go to, instead of an additional options to form_tag. So, you must isolate it:

form_tag( {:action => "actionxyz"}, :method => "get") do

or just

form_tag url_path, method: :get do #where url_path is your route