form-for

I have a form_for written in the following manner: <div class="field"> <%= location.label :city %> <%= location.text_field :city, :disabled=>true%> </div> <div class="field"> <%= location.label :country %> <%= location.text_field :country, :disabled=>true%> </div> As you can see the 2 textfield are disabled because they are autofilled by a jquery function and I don't want let the user handle them. The problem is that in this way, the view doesen't pass that parameters to the controller because are disabled !!! Is there any other way to pass not editable text_field to the controller, taking

I putting a form together, but for design reason the form must be submitted by a link. I found out how to perform that: = link_to_function "Next >>", "$(this).up('form').submit()" This will do, and I can create many link with this no problem. However I don't know how to distinguish which link was used to bring me back to the controller ? I need to perform slightly different depending on the link... Any idea ? I have tried to embed some javascript, etc. but I could not figure it out. Thanks, Alex = link_to_function "Next >>", "$('#hidden_field').value = 1;$(this).up('form').submit()" = link_to

I have a Project that belongs to User. In my user view I have a link to add a new project, with the parameter for the user I want to add the project to. <%= link_to 'Add new project', :controller => "project", :action => "new", :id => @user %> Url: /projects/new?id=62 Adding a project to a user works. The problem is when the validation fails while adding a new project and I do a render. def create @project = Project.new(params[:project]) if @project.save redirect_to :action => "show", :id => @project.id else render :action => "new" end end view: <%= form_for @project do |f| %> <%= f.label

I would like to know how to set default value on form_for select. My code goes like this: <%= form_for(@user) do |f| %> . . . <div class="field"> <%= f.select(:user_group_id, options_for_select(@user_groups.collect {|p| [ p.name, p.id ] }, "Select Category")) %> </div> <%= end %> Obviously it would return all the values of the field user_group. On my edit page, I would like to set the default value to whatever value the user have in the user_group. Pls help You can pass a second option to options_for_select that indicates the selected value . options_for_select(@user_groups.collect { |p| [p

How to map out has_one model with nested routes and how to add a form_for for /localhost:3000/users/1/profile/new,html.erb following RESTful database? User has one Profile. Models class Profile < ActiveRecord::Base attr_accessible :name, :surname belongs_to :user end class User < ActiveRecord::Base attr_accessible :email, :email_confirmation, :password, :password_confirmation has_secure_password has_one :profile, dependent: :destroy end resources :users do resources :profiles (note: has_one profile) resources :progress_charts resources :calories_journals end views/profiles/new.html.erb <h1

I am trying to add an Avatar Upload field to my Profile Page, but as soon as I add the :html => {:multipart => true} to it, it spits out an syntax error. <%= form_for(@user), :html => { :multipart => true } do |f| %> <%= render 'shared/error_messages', object: f.object %> <%= f.label :name %> <%= f.text_field :name %> <%= f.label :email %> <%= f.email_field :email %> <%= f.label :password %> <%= f.password_field :password %> <%= f.label :password_confirmation, "Confirmation" %> <%= f.password_field :password_confirmation %> <%= f.label :avatar %> <%= f.file_field :avatar %> <%= f.submit "Save