Question

I’m trying to make a non-model form in ruby on rails, most of the examples I can find only have one field (say a search field) or use an old way of writing a form like this An Email Form with Ruby on Rails

If anyone could show me example code of a non-model form with say two fields for the view and how I access those fields in the controller I’d be grateful.

Thanks so much.

Answer 1

You will need FormHelper methods:

Say you want a simple test action that submits to do_test action:

A simple view for test action (posts/test.html.erb):

<% form_tag '/posts/do_test' do %>
    <%=label_tag 'name' %>
    <%=text_field_tag 'name'%>

    <%=label_tag 'phone' %>
    <%=text_field_tag 'phone'%>

    <div><%= submit_tag 'Save' %></div>
<% end -%>

In the posts controller:

def test
end

def do_test
  name = params[:name]
  phone = params[:phone]
  # do whatever you want...
end

Also you need to add these 2 actions to the routes in config/routes.rb

map.resources :posts, :collection=>{:test => :get, :do_test => :post}