Question

I have a select drop down of items. When the user selects and item I need to redirect to edit_item_path for the item_id. e.g. If user selects and item with id =5 I need to redirect to items/5/edit path

How to do this in rails 3 and jquery?

Answer 1

Lets say that your dropdown looks like this:

<select id="editable_pages">
  <option value="1">Edit 1</option>
  <option value="2">Edit 2</option>
</select>

in that case following jquery snippet should works:

$('#editable_pages').change(function() {
    window.location = "items/+ $(this).find(":selected").text() +/edit";
});

Nicer solution is to use rails route helpers. To do that you could add a html5 data attribute with url to each options, eg:

<option value="1" data-edit-url="<%= edit_item_url(1) %>">Edit 1</option>

$('#editable_pages').change(function() {
    window.location = $(this).find(":selected").data('edit-url');
});