Question

I have my posts generating a :key_code when created. I want a user to be able to use that code in a form field to destroy the post they made, without being signed in. My difficulty is with form_tag… how could I make a form_tag view to check the :key_code entered with the one stored in the database? I’m having a hard time understanding form_tag.

My route looks like this:

get 'posts/:id/code' => 'posts#code', :as => :code

Any help is much appreciated

Answer 1

If I understand correctly then your route is wrong as you need a dynamic param code, so you should use :code instead of simply code:

get 'posts/:id/:code' => 'posts#code', :as => :code

To generate a url to that route in form_tag you use:

form_tag code_path(@post, :code => @post.key_code)