Hi

I know there are a lot of posts about the rails “dangerous” form_tag helper method, but why not another one.

Before saying anything about it, I want to write down the differences between form_tag and form_for (which was the choosen one previously). form_for is provided for updating data models and form_tag is provided for doing the other form operations (search something, change language in a page, etc).

Ok, after this, let’s go to the battle. This was my code

< % form_tag :controller => 'pages', :action => 'index' , :method => 'get' do %>
Tags : < %= text_field_tag :tags, '', :size => 40 %>
< %= submit_tag 'Search' %>
< % end %>

and I didn’t got the html code what I wanted to obtain, after googling for a while, I found this post which got me to the right way to see the light. The reason of this problem was that I was not using the right syntax for form_tag, which is

form_tag(url_for_options = {}, options = {}, *parameters_for_url, &block)

so my code became

< % form_tag({:controller => 'pages', :action => 'index'} , {:method => 'get'}) do %>
Tags : < %= text_field_tag :tags, '', :size => 40 %>
< %= submit_tag 'Search' %>
< % end %>

and I was happy again

Hope this silly problem helps not to waste your time (I did it for you )

M.

Two days ago, I was solving bugs in my new professional website (not available yet at http://www.miqueloliete.com) when I stared at the screen and noticed how ugly my url was (something/home/home).

In that moment I remembered that I had read something in Agile Development with rails about how to use routes.rb, so I decided to give it a go.

I add to this files these sentences

map.connect 'home/', :controller => 'home', :action => 'home'
map.connect 'about_me/', :controller => 'home', :action => 'about_me'
map.connect 'cv/', :controller => 'home', :action => 'cv'
map.connect 'projects/', :controller => 'home', :action => 'projects'

and ‘home/home’ became ‘home’, ‘home/cv’ became ‘cv’, etc

M.