Make Submit button use specific route - html

Question? How do I get my form.submit button to use a specific route? Specifically, the user can fill out this form from any page, and it will submit to a desired controller.
ruby -v 2.3.0
rails 5.0
This form is a feedback form for users to submit feedback. The way it works is, a little icon is available to click so the user can fill out and submit this form from ANY page. The Problem is, unless the user is on the homepage (local/customers), for example, they're on post/13, the form tries to add its URL route on top of the example and I get a "no route matches" ...post/13/customers/questionaire.
This is my route.rb
post 'customers/questionaire' => 'customers#questionaire'
This is the form view
<%= form_for :anything, url: "customers/questionaire" ,multiple:
true do |form| %>
<div><%= form.label :email, 'E-mail:' %>
<%= form.text_field :email , placeholder: 'JohnDoe#yahoo.com' %>
</div>
<div><%= form.label :feedback, 'Type of feedback:' %>
<%= form.text_field :feedback, placeholder: 'Problem, Bug, Idea...' %>
</div>
<div><%= form.label :notes, 'Notes: (Required)' %>
<%= form.text_field :notes, class: 'notes', id: 'notes', placeholder: "Your Feedback" %>
</div>
<%= form.submit "Submit", class: "btn1", id: "button", disabled: true %>
<% end %>

I think you need something like this. Do http://localhost:3000/routes. You will get all the routes in your app
<%= form_with scope: :post, url: customers_questionaire_path do |form| %>
<%= form.text_field :title %>
<% end %>
May be this for lower rails version :)
<%= form_for :customer, scope: :post, url: customers_questionaire_path do |form| %>
<%= form.text_field :title %>
<%= form.submit %>
<% end %>

What matters is the action attribute of the form HTML element, or the formaction attribute of a button or input element.¹
In Rails it's defined like so:²
<%= form_tag("/search", method: "get") do %>
<%= label_tag(:q, "Search for:") %>
<%= text_field_tag(:q) %>
<%= submit_tag("Search") %>
<% end %>
Which yields:
<form accept-charset="UTF-8" action="/search" method="get">
<input name="utf8" type="hidden" value="✓" />
<label for="q">Search for:</label>
<input id="q" name="q" type="text" />
<input name="commit" type="submit" value="Search" />
</form>
This will send the form data to the /search route.
With this approach, each form of your page will use a different route as target for form processing. You could alternatively use the same route and treat multiple use cases inside a single route, but that's not what you're asking.
Alternatively (or in addition to) you can also use the formaction attribute in buttons and inputs, in which case you override the form element's action attribute:³
<%= form_tag("/search", method: "get") do %>
<%= label_tag(:q, "Search for:") %>
<%= text_field_tag(:q) %>
<%= submit_tag("Search") %>
<%= submit_tag("Search On Rails", formaction: search_on_rails) %>
<% end %>
Which yields:
<form accept-charset="UTF-8" action="/search" method="get">
<input name="utf8" type="hidden" value="✓" />
<label for="q">Search for:</label>
<input id="q" name="q" type="text" />
<input name="commit" type="submit" value="Search" />
<input name="commit" type="submit" value="Search On Rails" formaction="/search_on_rails" />
</form>
It's as if the first submit button had a formaction="/search" because it's ommited, therefore the action="/search" in the <form> is used.
Other approaches in this question's answers and this one.
For your use case, you'll have to make sure the route /customers/questionaire it's consistent in any URI level (absolute, not dynamic). I lack this particular knowledge in Rails to provide a failsafe solution for this case, although it seems it works as expected in the current default behavior.
So the mistake in your code is using url: with a relative URI when you really want an action: in this line:
<%= form_for :anything, url: "customers/questionaire" ,multiple: true do |form| %>
Use instead:
<%= form_for :anything, url: {action: "customers/questionaire"}, multiple: true do |form| %>
See this question and this one.
In addition to this, instead of hardcoding routes / urls in the code, there's the url_for helper: https://api.rubyonrails.org/v5.1.7/classes/ActionDispatch/Routing/UrlFor.html

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Why rails form adds submit text to query params

With rails 5.1.5
I have this in a view:
<%= form_for(:date_filter, method: 'get') do |f| %>
<%= f.date_field(:travel_date , value: #travel_date) %>
<%= f.submit 'Time Travel now' %>
<% end %>
The genrated html is:
<form action="/games" accept-charset="UTF-8" method="get"><input name="utf8" type="hidden" value="✓">
<input value="2018-03-16" type="date" name="date_filter[travel_date]" id="date_filter_travel_date">
<input type="submit" name="commit" value="Time Travel now" data-disable-with="Time Travel now">
</form>
Everythins is working correctly but when I press submit I have this url
http://localhost:3000/games?utf8=%E2%9C%93&date_filter%5Btravel_date%5D=2018-03-16&commit=Time+Travel+now
Why utf8 and commit=Time+Travel+now are there?
How to remove it?
Not sure why you need to remove these two params from your form. These are creaed by rails from_for and submit tag.
utf-8 here to support Internet Explorer 5 and encourage it to use UTF-8 for all forms. For more clarification you can look at here.
If to still want to remove utf-8 params, you need to create your own html form without using rails form_for helper.
Removing commit params is more easier. Just change your submit tag from:
<%= f.submit 'Time Travel now' %>
to
<%= f.submit 'Time Travel now', :name => nil %>

How do I prevent my rails created form from allowing more than 1 radio button to be picked?

For some reason when executing this code, the radio buttons that get created aren't mutually exclusive in getting picked. How do I make it so that users can only pick 1 radio button? This code is essentially going through a variety of addresses and allowing a user to pick an address for their order.
<div class="select-address select-address-row" style="display:none">
<% #order.user.addresses.each do |address, index| %>
<%= form_for #order, remote: true, :html => { :id => 'address-form-'+address.id.to_s} do |a| %>
<div class="col-xs-4 select-address-col">
<div class="enterprise-buy-address-box address-<%= address.id %>">
<%= address.shipping_name %><br>
<%= address.line_1 %><br>
<%= address.city %>, <%= address.state %> <%= address.zipcode %><br>
<% isDefault = address.shipping_name == #defaultAddress.shipping_name ? true : false %>
<%= a.radio_button :pickedAddress, 'Address', :checked => isDefault %>
<%= label :pickedAddress, '' %>
<div class="submit-address">
<%= button_tag(type: 'submit', class: "btn btn-xs btn-default address-custom-button-select address-"+address.id.to_s+"-button") do %>
select
<% end %>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<%= a.hidden_field :address_id, :value => address.id %>
<% end %>
<script>
$('.address-<%=address.id%>-button').click(function() {
$('.default-address').empty();
var selectedAddress = $('.address-<%=address.id%>').clone();
selectedAddress.find('.submit-address').remove();
$('.default-address').append(selectedAddress);
$('default-address').addClass("enterprise-buy-address-box");
$('.default-address').show();
$('.select-address').toggle();
$('.change-address-link').toggle();
});
</script>
<% end %>
</div>
Your form_for tag is inside of the loop for the addresses. Even if the name attribute is the same for all of your input type="radio" elements, they will not be mutually exclusive across different form elements. Move your form_for tag outside of the loop so that the radio inputs belong to the same form.
See the following snippet for demonstration:
<p>These won't work</p>
<form>
<input type="radio" name="foo">
</form>
<form>
<input type="radio" name="foo">
</form>
<p>These do work</p>
<form>
<input type="radio" name="bar">
<input type="radio" name="bar">
</form>

Form creates multiple commit buttons in rails

i got a form which looks like this:
<h1>Title: <%= #task.title %></h1>
Dates: <% #dates.map do |date| %>
<%= form_tag("/responses/create/", :method => "post", :id => #task) do %>
<%= date.task_date %> <%= check_box_tag "response_checkbox", date.task_date %>
<%= submit_tag("Add") %>
<% end %>
<% end %>
what i want is a list of checkboxes where the user can select one and then submit the form with one button. but the form produces one submit button for every object and i can't figure out why! working on this for hours now ...
here is the html output:
<h1>Title: Weihnachtsball</h1>
Dates:
<form id="#<Task:0x000001067a6320>" method="post" action="/responses/create/" accept-charset="UTF-8">
<div style="display:none">
<input type="hidden" value="✓" name="utf8">
<input type="hidden" value="OaDIn2B0yHVBAY9z7F0IOdiULu5GiqlSJV5+Ft92tbw=" name="authenticity_token">
</div>
2014-11-10 11:11:00 UTC
<input id="response_checkbox" type="checkbox" value="2014-11-10 11:11:00 UTC" name="response_checkbox">
</form>
<form id="#<Task:0x000001067a6320>" method="post" action="/responses/create/" accept-charset="UTF-8">
<div style="display:none">
<input type="hidden" value="✓" name="utf8">
<input type="hidden" value="OaDIn2B0yHVBAY9z7F0IOdiULu5GiqlSJV5+Ft92tbw=" name="authenticity_token">
</div>
2014-11-23 12:14:00 UTC
<input id="response_checkbox" type="checkbox" value="2014-11-23 12:14:00 UTC" name="response_checkbox">
</form>
<input type="submit" value="Add" name="commit">
</div>
</div>
you need to iterate through dates inside the form_tag
<h1>Title: <%= #task.title %></h1>
<%= form_tag("/responses/create/", :method => "post", :id => #task) do %>
Dates: <% #dates.map do |date| %>
<%= date.task_date %> <%= radio_button_tag "response_checkbox", date.task_date %>
<% end %>
<%= submit_tag("Add") %>
<% end %>
should be ok.
Update
I think radio_button_tag is better for you case. After all you want the user to select one box.

post form submitting a get request header

I am developing a personal website in ruby on rails.
I have a form being dynamically generated as such:
<div>
<%= #request_type %>
<h1>Login Form</h1>
<% if #error == true %>
<h1>Error: Login Information Invalid</h1>
<% end %>
<%= form_for :user, url: {action: "login"}, method: :post do |f| %>
<p> E-mail: <br /> <%= f.text_field :email %></p>
<p> Password: <br /> <%= f.password_field :password %></p>
<p><%= submit_tag "Log In!", :disable_with => "Logging in..." %></p>
<% end %>
</div>
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The HTML generated for the form specifically looks like the following:
<form accept-charset="UTF-8" action="/login" method="post">
<!-- authentication token here -->
<p> E-mail: <br /> <input id="user_email" name="user[email]" type="text" /></p>
<p> Password: <br /> <input id="user_password" name="user[password]" type="password" /></p>
<p><input data-disable-with="Logging in..." name="commit" type="submit" value="Log In!" /></p>
</form>
However, any time I submit it, the headers are set with the GET method, instead of POST as declared in the form element (see method="post").
The R.O.R. might have nothing to do with what's going on... I am using Chrome to test my application. Any thoughts about why this is happening? I absolutely need the request to use POST.
If there's any other information that might be useful to solving this, please ask, and I will provide it.
Edit: Relevant routes:
login POST /login(.:format) user#login
GET /login(.:format) user#login'
I see no reason to post routes that are not associated with the "login" action.
and = submit_tag should be = f.submit_tag
Also replace:
<%= form_for :user, url: {action: "login"}, method: :post do |f| %>
With:
<%= form_for :user, url: login_path, method: :post do |f| %>

Is it the Rails way to use form helper markup?

I am reading the guide on form helpers http://guides.rubyonrails.org/form_helpers.html but I'm not sure whether I actually need to write my webpages this way..
I have an HTML form like this written in new.html.erb
<form action="/posts" method="post">
<label for="title">Test</label>
<input id="title"/>
<input type="submit" value="submit"/>
</form>
(The posts page is from the Getting Started guide)
When I submit the request, the server throws an ActionController::InvalidAuthenticityToken exception.
So I changed it to
<%= form_for :post, url: {action: "create"} do |f| %>
<label for="title">Test</label>
<input id="title"/>
<input type="submit" value="submit"/>
<% end %>
And now I have the same form, except the server now accepts the request.
Are form helpers the proper way to develop forms in Rails views?
Generally, yes.
"Rails way" would have you rewrite this as:
<%= form_for Post.new do |f| %>
<%= f.label :title, "Test" %>
<%= f.input :title %>
<%= f.submit %>
<% end %>
Your attempt to use the straight HTML tag was prevented by the CSRF protection that Rails uses on all of its non-GET requests. You must use the Rails form tags or remove CSRF protection to avoid that error.