Rails Button Links In Embedded Forms
This is one I have had sitting around for almost 3 years now in my toolbox and thought I would share. Have you ever had complicated rails forms and needed simple form buttons that just took you to a simple link? Were you bitten by the button_to helper code because it generates another form inside of a form? If so, here is a simple rails view helper I made that creates simple button links for embedded forms by making an input with a javascript function. Tag soup you ask, hell yeah, but worth if if you need it.
def button_to_link(name, link, options={})
confirm_option = options.delete(:confirm)
popup_option = options.delete(:popup)
link_function = popup_option ? redirect_function(link,:new_window => true) : redirect_function(link)
link_function = "if (confirm('#{escape_javascript(confirm_option)}')) { #{link_function}; }" if confirm_option
button_to_function name, link_function, options
end
def redirect_function(location, options={})
location = location.is_a?(String) ? location : url_for(location)
if options[:new_window]
%|window.open('#{location}')|
else
%|{window.location.href='#{location}'}|
end
end