Request.post? is true without a form being posted?

Rails
1

Greetings,

I’m trying to leverage the “request.post?” information to use one method
for both insert and update. This Rails Recipes # 33 with a minor twist
to the first line based on another online snippet.

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def edit

 @company = params[:id] ? Company.find(params[:id]) : Company.new

 if request.post?

    @company.attributes = params[:company]
    redirect_to :controller => "main", :action => "home" and return

if @company.save

 end

end

The above action is called from a button as follows:

<%= button_to “Add Company”, { :controller => “company”, :action =>
“edit” }%>

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But when the edit method runs, request.post? is true and the save method
fires, causing the Company#validates_presence_of code to detect a
missing company name.

Result: The form opens, but it already has an error shown through the
inclusion of an “error_messages_for(:company)” display.

Please help me understand the right way to combine these elements so
that I don’t have to write add and edit methods for every model.

Thanks!
Michael

2

Well, yeah, the docs state that button_to generates a form that uses
POST.

Joe