Question

I’m looking for a way, how a user can type the ID of a record (i.e. /controller/23) , then press the goto button and it navigates directly to /controller/id

So the user is on the index page. There is something like a number_field_tag (input field), wrapped inside a form? You type the ID of the record and then click GOTO.

I don’t want to explain to a user they can do this simply by changing the URL, so i prefer a solution that uses the page.

Preferable non javascript. Any ideas?

Thanks.

Answer 1

You’ll either need to write another action to handle the translation of submission -> redirection to the URL cleanly or use a javascript solution in my opinion.

<script type="text/javascript">
  $('form')  // replace with a more detailed selector of your form (e.g. #formid)
    .submit(function() {
      window.location.href = 'http://foo.bar/controller/' + $('#field-id').val();
      return false;
    });
</script>

That bit of JS will accomplish what you need if you decided that a JS approach is satisfactory.