Question

I’m using formtastic to collect information from a form and post dirctly to an external site.

I have no problem generating the form itself. However, since this is being submitted to an external site, they require that each input field have the specific IDs they specify, eg email or last_name — not the closest Formtastic form, eg _email_input or _last_name_input.

I’ve looked at the Formtastic v1.2.3 code and I’m 90% sure the answer is “sorry, can’t do that.” I figured it couldn’t hurt to check if I’m missing something. I would like some way to specify the ID completely, as in:

= semantic_form_for('', :url => "https://external_site.com/handler, :method => "post") do |form|
  = form.input :last_name, :id => "last_name"
  [etc]

Is this possible?

(I will note that I recognize that another, arguably superior approach would be to create an appropriate controller, sanity check the parameters locally, and dispatch the remote call from within the app only when it’s well formed; however, that’s not what I’m trying to do at the moment.)

Answer 1

Firstly i think you need to use semantic_fields_for for non-model forms. Next, to pass ids to each field, you can use the input_html options to specify them. for eg

form.input :email, :input_html => {:name => 'email', :id => 'email' }