Question

I’m using rails 3 and this is how I’ve set up my link_to in my view

<%= link_to ('add',
                :url => {:controller => 'favourite_companies', :action =>'create', 
                :company_id=>@company.id,   
                :company_name=>@company.company_name, :remote => true}) %>

When I click it, the page refreshes and nothing happens.

I’ve added <%= csrf_meta_tag %> and all javascript files.

In the controller, the function looks like this:

def create
  @favorite_list = 
      FavouriteCompany.new(:user_id=>curr_user.id,:company_id=>params[:company_id])
  @favorite_list.save
  render :partial => "create"

end

Any idea what might be wrong? Thanks.

Answer 1

Have you looked at the HTML that is being output via your browsers dev tools (ie firebug, etc)?

I believe you have the :remote => true in the wrong hash.

Try:

<%= link_to ('add',
     {:url => {:controller => 'favourite_companies', :action =>'create', 
     :company_id=>@company.id,   
     :company_name=>@company.company_name}}, :remote => true) %>

Is there a reason you aren’t using Rails Routes and generating the link via the standard Rails process like:

<%= link_to 'add', favourite_companies_path(@company), :remote => true %>