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Christian Bell
Christian Bell

Reputation: 314

Ruby on Rails, setting a different method for the same form with two submit buttons

I was looking through this response to having different paths to a second submit button How do I create multiple submit buttons for the same form in Rails?, and ended up using formaction: my_path to specify the new path.

This works nicely if the form has the same method i.e. POST, but doesn't seem to work if the form requires a different method.

I was wondering whether anyone knew a neat solution like the formaction: my_path solution or a rails helper or if in fact the best way forward is to reset the method via JS.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1217

Answers (1)

Christian Bell
Christian Bell

Reputation: 314

Managed to find out what it was for those who are interested, there is an html element 'formmethod' that you can set to give the request a different method.

Here's a non-rails example from W3 schools - https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_form_attributes.asp

<form action="/action_page.php" method="get"> First name: <input type="text" name="fname"><br> Last name: <input type="text" name="lname"><br> <input type="submit" value="Submit"> <input type="submit" formmethod="post" value="Submit using POST"> </form>

Upvotes: 1

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