Multiple submit buttons for one form

Rails
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Hello gents,

I’m building an enterprise web-site which contains:

  1. a table with editable fields (checkboxes, textboxes, etc.)
  2. multiple “buttons” which represent actions.

How can I redirect from a particular button to a particualar action and
get the values of all the controls on the form?

I know that ASP.NET and Java create wrappers for the buttons and save
the state of the controls in a hidden filed ViewState. Is there any way
in RoR to do the same?

Thanks in advance,
Dmitry

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Nop N. wrote:

the state of the controls in a hidden filed ViewState. Is there any way
in RoR to do the same?

Thanks in advance,
Dmitry

One way to do this would be to have 1 form and
1 action with a bunch of submit buttons.

Rails helpers names submit buttons “commit” so in
your controller you could switch on params[:commit]
and call an appropriate method for your “action”.

-rm

–
http://myutil.com/

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face wrote:

Nop N. wrote:

the state of the controls in a hidden filed ViewState. Is there any way
in RoR to do the same?

Thanks in advance,
Dmitry

One way to do this would be to have 1 form and
1 action with a bunch of submit buttons.

Rails helpers names submit buttons “commit” so in
your controller you could switch on params[:commit]
and call an appropriate method for your “action”.

-rm

–
http://myutil.com/

Could you please give an example on how to define such a submit button?
Actually I need not a button but an image which submits the form
following the onclick event.

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Nop N.

Google is your friend.

  1. multiple “buttons” which represent actions.
    …
    How can I redirect from a particular button to a particualar action
    and

Look at
“Multibutton Form”
#38 Multibutton Form - RailsCasts

All buttons will call the same action, but you’ll have a means to
identify the pressed button.

remark: it won’t work with AJAX request.
In this case, use a hidden field and sets its value differently in
each submit button “onclick”.

Alain R.