I have some rails-bootstrap-form code in a header partial that gets rendered in the Rails 4 application layout:
<div class="navbar-form navbar-right">
<%= bootstrap_form_tag controller: 'devices', action: 'index', method: 'get' do |f| %>
<%= f.search_field :search, hide_label: true, placeholder: 'Search' %>
<%= f.submit "Submit", :name => nil %>
<% end %>
</div>
I want this search form to always perform a GET
request on the devices controller's index action. The search doesn't actually link to the devices index url, it appends the search parameter to the current url like this: /devices/1?search=foo
. Since it just appends to the current URL, the search works fine from /devices
.
I thought that if I pass in controller: 'devices', action: 'index', method: 'get'
to bootstrap_form_tag
it would force the URL to rewrite, but I'm not having any luck.
I ended up stripping out bootstrap_form_tag
and I went with a standard form_tag
. I had to add the bootstrap form classes in manually.
<%= form_tag(devices_path, method: 'get', class: 'navbar-form navbar-right') do %>
<%= search_field_tag 'search', nil, class: 'form-control', placeholder: 'Search' %>
<%= submit_tag "Submit", class: 'btn btn-default', :name => nil %>
<% end %>
I thought the bootstrap-forms gem would save time, but it definitely didn't for the search.