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John Smith
John Smith

Reputation: 6259

Submit button with Options

For one form, I want to have two submit buttons , named:

Appove, Decline

when the user clicks on Approve it should send approve: true as well

when the user clicks on Decline it should send approve: false as well

Basically the buttons should work like a checkbox

Is this possible with Rails and how to implement it? Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 661

Answers (2)

SteveTurczyn
SteveTurczyn

Reputation: 36860

If you're using the standard submit form helper, you will get returned a param with the key "commit". You can test for this in your controller code.

<%= f.submit 'Approve' %>
<%= f.submit 'Decline' %>

in the controller...

def create
  approved = params[:commit] == 'Approve'

The approved variable will then contain true or false and you can use it as needed in the rest of the action / method.

Upvotes: 2

nautgrad
nautgrad

Reputation: 414

You can do it but you need js/jquery for this. You will have hidden checkbox that you will check in proper way and two buttons. Lets assume that your form has id 'form'. And you checkbox has id 'approve_checkbox' In this case you need submit function for something like this.

$('#approve_button').on('click', function(e){
  e.preventDefault();
  $('#approve_checkbox').prop('checked', true);
  $('#form').submit();
});

$('#decline_button').on('click', function(e){
  e.preventDefault();
  $('#approve_checkbox').prop('checked', false);
  $('#form').submit();
});

Of course you can simplify this code, but I think idea is clear.

Upvotes: 1

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