why is button_to not working with method: :put with slim in rails

Question

I want to trigger a put method for voting with emojis but button_to is not working with slim in rails

I have the following:

 = button_to vote_backend_session_path(@session.id, emoji: emoji), method: :put, remote: true, class: "btn btn-vote btn-xs bg-dark border-white hover-primary" do
      i.material-icons.align-middle. #{emoji.to_s}
      span.align-middle.text-white.ms-2 = @session.total(emoji)

it output the following in developer console:

So everytime a post action is triggered and my controller says it can't find the specified route.

I tried to change only in developer console to put, but then it triggers an GET instead of PUT

I looked at several questions regarding button_to:

• https://coderedirect.com/questions/280885/rails-button-to-applying-css-class-to-button
  • adding {} did not change anything
• Rails 'button_to' is not working with 'send_file' method
  • using it with method: 'get' had no effect.
• Nested icons and Rails' link_to or button_to are not working with SLIM
  • putting icon before path gives error and indenting the second block gives strange output

I looked at the API doc as well here and was not able to find a solution.

So how to fix this and use button_to with rails in my case?

Answer 1

your button type is submit, which will trigger the form to submit its fields

it shouldn't be inside a form tag you can use the CSS technique to make it look like inside the form