Button for change an attribute's value

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Hello people

I'm stuck in a problem, I've tried to solve this from last week and I still can't achieve it.

I have a Form in my rails 3.0.9 app to "accept" or "reject" a document, untill now I'm using a collection select with two options "Accept" and "Reject", then I have to click on the submit button to save changes.

What I want to do now is, instead of the collection select I want to have two buttons, one named "accept" and the other named "reject" and when the user click one of the buttons, save the changes inmediately.

Does anyone know how can I do this?? (I've tried with "button_to", but I don't know how to change the value of the attribute). Thanks

2

Maybe you should try pure html button with onclick attribute that sends some information to your controller (via ajax?). It's quite simple btw.

3

In the Form, you can set two buttons with a different text

Accept

Reject

I presume that could be

submit_tag(“Accept”)

submit_tag(“Reject”)

with the appropriate html around it.

Then when the user clicks one of the two buttons, you will get a POST

request that will contain params and one of the params will have the key “commit”

Parameters: {“utf8”=>“✓”, “authenticity_token”=>“eW3HL1vjUzTcqpFvDcXnu9rGGUhFFe6vcwqfaA/4nWE=”, “user”=>{“first_name”=>“Peter”, “last_name”=>“V”,… }, “commit”=>“Accept”}

So in the action if you can check

params[:commit]

which should be either “Accept” or “Reject” and can use that for your logic.

as in

case params[:commit]

when “Accept”

do the accept

when “Reject”

do the reject

else

should not occur (but it can in certain circumstances)

end

HTH,

Peter

4

Thanks for your help Peter

You were right, I tried what you told me, and everything worked perfect

Thanks again for your help