I'm not getting it. I'm building a rails application and want to do some single page actions. What I got from now is, when a I pick a 'customer' from the list on the customers/index.html.erb, I render it in the 'current_customer' div. When I click on edit, the form is rendered in the 'current_customer' - perfect. But when I click on sumbit on the form, I get an error (which I understand) 'ActionController::UnknownFormat' because of the action oin the controller for 'show'. I'm routed to 'http://localhost:3000/customers/2' What I want to is to route to 'http://localhost:3000/customers' after clikcing sumit and the render the cutomers/_show.html.erb in the 'current_customer' div.
My Code: customers/index.html.erb
<h1>Listing Customers</h1>
<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Name</th>
<th colspan="3">Actions</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<% @customers.each do |customer| %>
<tr>
<td><%= customer.name %></td>
<td><%= link_to 'Show', customer, remote: true %></td>
<td><%= link_to 'Edit', edit_customer_path(customer), remote: true %></td>
<td><%= link_to 'Destroy', customer, method: :delete, data: { confirm: 'Are you sure?' } %></td>
</tr>
<% end %>
</tbody>
</table>
<br>
<div id="current_customer"></div>
<br>
<%= link_to 'New Customer', new_customer_path, class: "button", id: "new_customer" %>
customers/_show.html.erb
<p>
<strong>Name:</strong>
<%= @customer.name %>
<%= @customer.id %>
</p>
<%= link_to 'Edit Customer', edit_customer_path(@customer) %> |
customers/_edit.html.erb
<h1>Editing Customer</h1>
<%= render 'form' %>
<%= link_to 'Show', @customer %> |
customers/_form.html.erb
<%= form_for(@customer) do |f| %>
<% if @customer.errors.any? %>
<div id="error_explanation">
<h2><%= pluralize(@customer.errors.count, "error") %> prohibited this customer from being saved:</h2>
<ul>
<% @customer.errors.full_messages.each do |message| %>
<li><%= message %></li>
<% end %>
</ul>
</div>
<% end %>
<div class="field">
<%= f.label :name %><br>
<%= f.text_field :name %>
</div>
<div class="actions">
<%= f.submit id: "customer_button", remote: true %>
</div>
<% end %>
customers/edit.js.erb
$("#current_customer").html("<%= escape_javascript(render partial: 'customers/edit', locals: { customer: @customer } ) %>");
customers_controller.rb (partly)
def show
respond_to do |format|
format.js {render layout: false}
end
end
# GET /customers/new
def new
end
# GET /customers/1/edit
def edit
respond_to do |format|
format.js {render layout: false}
end
end
def update
respond_to do |format|
if @customer.update(customer_params)
format.html { redirect_to @customer, notice: 'Customer was successfully updated.' }
format.json { render :show, status: :ok, location: @customer }
else
format.html { render :edit }
format.json { render json: @customer.errors, status: :unprocessable_entity }
end
end
end
I'd be glad for every help! Thanks
You need to put remote: true
in form_for
tag instead of submit
button, add it here
<%= form_for @customer, remote: true do |f| %>
Remove it from
<%= f.submit id: "customer_button" %>
Also, update
action should accept AJAX requests too, create update.js.erb
template and handle the AJAX request as you are submitting the form using remote: true
Hope that helps!