Question

So I know how to submit a form to a server via form_for to a model’s create and update methods, but if a model has some method foobar, how do I submit a form specifically to the foobar method? I tried specifying :method => "foobar" but that didn’t seem to do the trick. How can I submit a form_for that goes to a non-RESTful method?

EDIT:

I don’t want said method to be accessible to anyone by typing the address in their address bar. eg. www.site_name.com/controller_name/foobar should not be valid – the foobar method should solely be used for processing the submitted form.

Answer 1

You can use the :url optional parameter to form_for to specify the url you want to post to.

form_for(@model, :url => foobar_model_path) do |f| 
  ...
end