Question

I have this syntax which works (since it’s from the API, pretty much)

  <% form_tag :action => 'whatever' do -%>     <div><%= submit_tag 'Save' %></div>   <% end -%> 

and this, which works

<%=  form_tag({:action => 'whatever'}, {:method => 'get'})%> 

Now I have tried to combine them, guessing the syntax. The ‘get’ does not get added as the form method as I had hoped. How should this read?

  <% form_tag :action => 'whatever',:method => 'get'  do -%>     <div><%= submit_tag 'Save' %></div>   <% end -%> 

Form tag should read:

<form action='hello/whatever' method='get'/>  

not

<form action='hello/whatever?method=get' /> 

Answer 1

<% form_tag({:action => 'whatever'}, :method => 'get')  do -%>       <div><%= submit_tag 'Save' %></div> <% end -%> 

Looking at the API docs, the issue is that :method needs to go in the options hash, and the :action in the url_for_options hash, and you need the extra curly brackets so the interpreter knows they are different hashes.