Question

Okay, so this is a very strange problem and it has a lot of possible reasons so I’ll try to include everything one would need to answer it but if there is anything else just tell me and i’ll post it

So I have an app which lists ‘wishes’ basically just a blog/post model. Each wish has many votes, and votes belong to the wish. On my index page I would like to list all of the wishes and corresponding votes, a button to allow casting a vote, and a form to submit a new wish

This is the _new wish partial

<%= form_for( @wish, :remote => true) do |f| %>
<div class="field">
    <%= f.label :title, 'I Wish UChicago Had' %>
    <%= f.text_field :title %>
  </div>
  <div class="actions">
    <%= f.submit %>
  </div>
<% end %>

it is remote because i want to use ajax to post it on the index page
here is the way i list the wishes, in a table with the name, votes and a button to vote

<tr>
<td> <%= w.title       %> </td>
<td> <%= w.author      %> </td>
<td> <%= w.count_votes %> </td>
<td> <%= render 'vote' %> </td>
<tr>

and finally the vote partial

<%= form_for(@vote) do |f| %>
  <div class="fields">
    <%= f.hidden_field :wish_id, :value => @w.id%>
  </div>
  <div class="actions">
    <%= f.submit %>
  </div>
<% end %>

Now here is the issue, here is a copy of the rails log when I try to create a new wish

Started POST "/wishes" for 127.0.0.1 at 2011-04-16 19:44:05 -0500
  Processing by WishesController#create as JS
  Parameters: {"utf8"=>"✓", "authenticity_token"=>"FnrT95FCdv5fJs8AoxIMhrRjBk79wmWJ2s/RdsB43Pg=", "wish"=>{"title"=>"paul"}}
  AREL (0.7ms)  INSERT INTO "wishes" ("title", "body", "author", "created_at", "updated_at") VALUES ('paul', NULL, NULL, '2011-04-17 00:44:05.190203', '2011-04-17 00:44:05.190203')
Rendered wishes/create.js.erb (0.4ms)
Completed 200 OK in 32ms (Views: 8.2ms | ActiveRecord: 0.7ms)


Started POST "/votes" for 127.0.0.1 at 2011-04-16 19:44:05 -0500
  Processing by VotesController#create as HTML
  Parameters: {"utf8"=>"✓", "authenticity_token"=>"FnrT95FCdv5fJs8AoxIMhrRjBk79wmWJ2s/RdsB43Pg=", "vote"=>{"wish_id"=>"1"}}
  Wish Load (0.5ms)  SELECT "wishes".* FROM "wishes" WHERE "wishes"."id" = 1 LIMIT 1
  AREL (0.3ms)  INSERT INTO "votes" ("weight", "wish_id", "created_at", "updated_at") VALUES (1, 1, '2011-04-17 00:44:05.321513', '2011-04-17 00:44:05.321513')
Redirected to http://localhost:3000/
Completed 302 Found in 62ms


Started GET "/" for 127.0.0.1 at 2011-04-16 19:44:05 -0500
  Processing by WishesController#index as HTML
  Wish Load (54.4ms)  SELECT "wishes".* FROM "wishes"

As you can see, the wishes posts correctly to /wishes and even renders the create.js correctly! but then it keeps going and renders the /votes post also! and this gets rendered as html as usual.

Why is it submitting both forms? I just want to submit one or the other?

EDIT_
here is the outputted HTML on the page

<table border="1">
<tr>
<td> paul </td>
<td>  </td>
<td> 1 </td>
<td> <form accept-charset="UTF-8" action="/votes" class="new_vote" id="new_vote" method="post"><div style="margin:0;padding:0;display:inline"><input name="utf8" type="hidden" value="&#x2713;" /><input name="authenticity_token" type="hidden" value="FnrT95FCdv5fJs8AoxIMhrRjBk79wmWJ2s/RdsB43Pg=" /></div>
  <div class="fields">
    <input id="vote_wish_id" name="vote[wish_id]" type="hidden" value="1" />
  </div>
  <div class="actions">
    <input id="vote_submit" name="commit" type="submit" value="Create Vote" />
  </div>
</form> </td>
<tr>
<tr>
<td> paul kaplan </td>
<td>  </td>
<td> 0 </td>
<td> <form accept-charset="UTF-8" action="/votes" class="new_vote" id="new_vote" method="post"><div style="margin:0;padding:0;display:inline"><input name="utf8" type="hidden" value="&#x2713;" /><input name="authenticity_token" type="hidden" value="FnrT95FCdv5fJs8AoxIMhrRjBk79wmWJ2s/RdsB43Pg=" /></div>
  <div class="fields">
    <input id="vote_wish_id" name="vote[wish_id]" type="hidden" value="2" />
  </div>
  <div class="actions">
    <input id="vote_submit" name="commit" type="submit" value="Create Vote" />
  </div>
</form> </td>
<tr>
</table>

<form accept-charset="UTF-8" action="/wishes" class="new_wish" data-remote="true" id="new_wish" method="post"><div style="margin:0;padding:0;display:inline"><input name="utf8" type="hidden" value="&#x2713;" /><input name="authenticity_token" type="hidden" value="FnrT95FCdv5fJs8AoxIMhrRjBk79wmWJ2s/RdsB43Pg=" /></div>


  <div class="field">
    <label for="wish_title">I Wish I Had</label>
    <input id="wish_title" name="wish[title]" size="30" type="text" />
  </div>
  <div class="actions">
    <input id="wish_submit" name="commmm" type="submit" value="submit" />
  </div>
</form>

</body>
</html>

Answer 1

it has been a while, but for completeness if anyone else hits this problem I figure I should put up my answer. basically the comments above where correct, I had 2 forms with the same id so it was submitting them both, and the javascript was messing it up.