Trouble understanding rhtml forms

Rails
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i dont understand where the following points to the actual post
method:

<% form_tag do -%>

Email:
<%= text_field_tag 'email' %>

Password
<%= password_field_tag 'password' %>

Remember me: <%= check_box_tag 'remember_me' %>

<%= submit_tag 'Log in' %>

<% end -%>

it seems to automatically direct to my login def in my controller, but
i dont understand how.

Could someone please clear this up

thanks

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Hi,

[email protected] wrote:

i dont understand where the following points to the actual post
method:

<% form_tag do -%>

I’m pretty sure it doesn’t. You’re missing the path in the form_tag
which
should look something like:
<% form_tag ‘controller/method’ do -%>

it seems to automatically direct to my login def in my controller,
but i dont understand how.

I’m guessing you’ve probably got some code that takes non-logged-in
visitors
to that method / page to avoid unauthorized access. That would probably
account for the behavior, although it seems to me that it would be
better if
this threw a syntax error instead.

hth,
Bill

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Hi Bill,

Thanks for the reply. I actually got this code from the
act_as_authenticated plugin, and it doesn’t what i posted is exactly
what is in the rhtml file, thats why i am struggling to figure out how
it works. I seems like it is missing the controller/method tag as you
mentioned, but it still figures things out.

I guess I have just been struggling to figure out rails. I have went
through some tutorials, but most of them are like: “look…it works!”,
where as I want to know why it works, how things are binded together,
etc.