Rails form with url based on input

Question

I feel like there's no easy way to do this in rails, but since I'm fairly noob in rails I decided to ask for solutions:

I have a form in a view that contains a single (text) input. How can I specify the form url such that it will do a GET to /something/<input> ?

I know I could:

use custom javascript code
post to an endpoint that would do the redirect

Is there any cleaner way?

(using rails 5.2.1 if relevant)

Aleksandr Dyuzhikov · Accepted Answer · 2019-09-19 22:12:37Z

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I think you could use something like this:

<%= form_tag(route_path method: :get) do %>
  search <%= text_field_tag :search %>
  <%= submit_tag 'Search' %>
<% end %>

It depends on which form helpers you use.

answered Sep 19, 2019 at 22:12

Aleksandr Dyuzhikov

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pedrorijo91 Over a year ago

form_tag is deprecated as stated on m.patrikonrails.com/…

Violeta · Accepted Answer · 2019-09-20 07:45:34Z

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Maybe you can try this

In your form:

<%= form_with(url: "path_name/input_field_name", method: :get, local: true) do |f| %>
  <%= f.text_field :input_field_name %>
  <%= f.submit 'Search', input_field_name: nil %>
<% end %>

In your controller:

unless params[:input_field_name].blank?
  @results = ModelName.where('input_field_name iLIKE ?', "%#{params[:input_field_name]}%")
end

answered Sep 20, 2019 at 7:45

Violeta

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jamezrin Over a year ago

This becomes messy when you have nested resources, is there a better way?

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