Embedding a full form in a helper

rubyonrails-talk
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I am trying to get this to work:

  def do_button(event_type)     varname = event_type.name.underscore     humanname = event_type.new.event_name_string     form_for (@user, :url => "do_#{varname}_user_path(@user)") do | form>       submit_tag "I got my #{humanname} today"     end   end

My view has this in it:

      <li>         <% do_button(Mammogram) %>       </li>

But I keep getting this error in the log from the form_for line inside the helper:

ActionView::TemplateError (undefined local variable or method `_erbout' for <ActionView::Base:0x357355c>) in users/ _mammogram.html.erb.

Can't figure out what to do. Anyone?

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form_for does not work in a helper. Use a partial instead.

Aaron

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Hi.

I have the same problem...

As I'm still trying to find whats wrong I can only share some guesses:

1. The error is the same as when you do something like this in the view:

<%= form_for(@user) do |f| %>

(note the '=')

So my guess is that what happens is that the block treats all the code as it was inside <%= %>-tags and therefore breaking the "sub-block"...

Please let me know if you find a solution to the problem...

Thanks, Nicklas