linking to a form submit

rubyonrails-talk
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Hi, I have a form that looks like this, and it works fine:

      <% form_for :search_term, :url => { :action => :search} do |f| %>       <%= f.text_field 'search_term' %>       <%= submit_tag 'Search' %>       <% end %>

I want to make a link that submits to the same action, but I when I try, I get this error:

undefined method `stringify_keys!' for "test search":String

Here is my attempted link_to:

<%= link_to(truncate(recent_search.search_term, 40), {:controller => 'admin', :action => 'search', :search_term => recent_search.search_term }, :method => :post ) %>

By the way, this search string displays just fine -- but when I click the link, I get that error.

Charlie

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While helpers are nice, this is *so* simple to do with JavaScript I can't think of any reason not to do it. Just make sure your form tag has name and id attributes.

<A href="#" onclick="document.myform.submit()">Submit</A>