Question

I’m using simple_form for a form and passing in some URL parameters
to prepopulate the form.

This code works OK

<%= f.input :first_name, :label => 'First Name', :input_html => { :value => params['first'] } %>

Using the URL

http://localhost:3000/charities/new?first=Bob

Which outputs this HTML

<input class="string required" id="charity_first_name" name="charity[first_name]" size="50" type="text" value="Bob" />

However if the form server side validation fails the page reloads but the prepopulate
value is gone? This is the rendered HTML

<input class="string required" id="charity_first_name" name="charity[first_name]" size="50" type="text" />

Can anyone help advise how to prepopulate simple_form and retain those
values if the serverside validastion fails and the page reloads?

Thank you.

Answer 1

if you want to make it works with validations you should preset object values in controller like this:

@charity = Charity.new
@charity.first_name = params[:first]