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SimpleForm post form to differnt controller and action

I have Event show page where I display a customer form for @customer. If the event is a different kind of an event then I display a form for @registration and I want to post that form to RegistrationsController#create.

Right now in my routes I have this:

routes

post '/:slug' => 'events#create', as: :registration

form

<%= simple_form_for @registration, url: custom_registration_path, html: { class: 'form, styled-form', autocomplete: 'off' } do |f| %>
...
<% end %>

The form above still posts to EventsController#create I define @registration in EventsController#show and I want to post the form to custom_registration_path.

How do I define the route? I still want to send the :slug to RegistrationsController.

Solution

  • If I understood the situation correctly: You can't have two routes with the same HTTP method & path. The method + path combination has to be unique. You either should route your custom registration to smth like custom_registrations/:slug or change the path for events#create

    Of course, you can use a different method for different actions. PUT for example. But I'd consider it a bad practice as it's very implicit and will be hard to understand for anyone working with this code.