Question

i was wondering why does

<%= form_tag( { :action => "/search", :method => "get" }, :class => "span4" ) do %>
...
<% end %>

give the following error?

No route matches [POST] "/assets"

i notice it’s because of the /search. if i rewrote the code as…

<%= form_tag( { :action => "search", :method => "get" }, :class => "span4" ) do %>
...
<% end %>

without the /search, it correctly calls my controller method. can someone explain why? thanks

Answer 1

This will do what you mean:

<%= form_tag( "/search", :method => "get" , :class => "span4" ) do %>
...
<% end %>

If the first parameter of form_tag is a hash as you have given, it is passed behind-the-scenes to url_for, which inteprets :action as the action part of a route for it to reverse-map.

Since you (I guess) want to just pass a plain URL, just pass it as a string for the first arg.

More info here of course 🙂