Inline Button To

January 18, 2008

Happy New Year. I have been a bit quiet of late as I have moved to Trondheim, Norway and am getting to grips with everything here.

Every wanted to use the button_to helper and need it to display items on the same name as the button?

Like this :

If you are running rails2 slap this in your config/initializers directory.

module ActionView
    module Helpers
      module UrlHelper

        def inline_button_to(name, options = {}, html_options = {})

          html_options = html_options.stringify_keys
          convert_boolean_attributes!(html_options, %w( disabled ))

          if(other_code = html_options.delete('inline'))
            other_code = " or " + other_code
          end

          method_tag = ''
          if (method = html_options.delete('method')) && %w{put delete}.include?(method.to_s)
            method_tag = tag('input', :type => 'hidden', :name => '_method', :value => method.to_s)
          end

          form_method = method.to_s == 'post' ? 'post' : 'get'

          request_token_tag = ''
          if form_method == 'post' && protect_against_forgery?
            request_token_tag = tag(:input, :type => "hidden", :name => request_forgery_protection_token.to_s, :value => form_authenticity_token)
          end

          if confirm = html_options.delete("confirm")
            html_options["onclick"] = "return #{confirm_javascript_function(confirm)};"
          end

          url = options.is_a?(String) ? options : self.url_for(options)
          name ||= url

          html_options.merge!("type" => "submit", "value" => name)



          "<form method=\"#{form_method}\" action=\"#{escape_once url}\" class=\"button-to\"><div>" +
          method_tag + tag("input", html_options) + request_token_tag + other_code + "</div>"
        end

      end
    end
  end

The you can call:

<%= inline_button_to 'title', url, {:inline => 'what you want in here'}%>

Cheers.


© 2020 Alastair Brunton