Simple_form: form is not respecting the define http method

[felipero]

Hi,

I'm trying to create a custom for user editing and I see two problems.

1) Using edit_user_registration_path generates the following url "/users/edit" with method="post"

2) After setting the url by myself, using url: "/users", I can't set the http method to put. Neither using method: :put or html: {method: :put}.

The @user object is filled with data and is already persisted. I'm usgin simple_for version 1.5.2 on rails 3.2.3.

I believe this is a bug.

[rafaelfranca]

This is how Rails works. If the @user is persisted so the Rails will use the edit path and the method post.

You need to do:

simple_form_for @user, :url => "/users", :method => :put

If this doesn't work it is a Rails issue. SimpleForm only delegates to form_for

[felipero]

Hi Rafael, Thanks for answering that fast. :)

However I'm not sure I understood what you said. Did you understand the issue, more specifically the second part?

If I do that:

<%= simple_form_for User.first, url: {action: :update, controller: 'users/registrations'}, :method => :put, validate: true do |f| %>

Thats what I get:

<form accept-charset="UTF-8" action="/users" class="simple_form user" data-validate="true" id="edit_user_1" method="post" novalidate="novalidate">

Also, you say rails will use http method POST for persisted records?
This is not what is stated here: http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/FormHelper.html#method-i-form_for-label-Resource-oriented+style

So, are you sure you understood the problem? Am I missing something here?

[rafaelfranca]

Oops, If the record is persisted rails uses PUT and update.

Also I saw the code and if you pass the :method key rails will use.

[rafaelfranca]

Please report back if it works, or if we need to open an issue on Rails.

[felipero]

In the code I sent before, the key/value :method => : put is already there. So maybe it is an Rails issue? I'm using 3.2.3.

[carlosantoniodasilva]

@felipero May I ask you what's the validate option you're giving to SimpleForm (that apparently generates data-validate)?

form_for should just work, as in this example from Rails docs:

# For example, if <tt>@post</tt> is an existing record you want to edit

<%= form_for @post do |f| %>
...
<% end %>

# is equivalent to something like:

<%= form_for @post, :as => :post, :url => post_path(@post), :method => :put, :html => { :class => "edit_post", :id => "edit_post_45" } do |f| %>
...
<% end %>

You can give it a try using only form_for to see if that works. The same arguments should work for both.

[felipero]

Forget it. Looks like rails will use a input hidden to pass the put method. That happens because browsers doesn't support PUT and DELETE. Not sure why it is not finding my action anyway.

Thanks for your time.

[carlosantoniodasilva]

Ok, thanks for reporting back, and let us know if you have any other issues.