Walter Davis wrote in post #1150186: > On Jun 19, 2014, at 2:09 AM, Ronald Fischer wrote: > >> Does this mean that I can't solve this with a *button*, but would have >> to use a *link* instead? > > It's important to note that you may style a link to look like anything > -- even a button. But you cannot remove the button-ness from an actual > button and have it do anything besides submit the form containing it.
I see. Maybe I'm using the wrong design here in the first place. Here is what I am going to do: The user arrives the web page in question, from an overview page. The overview page gives a list of all instances (in this case, of type Card), by listing only the primary key of the instance. When the user clicks on one of those keys, s/he arrives at a page displaying all the data for this Card instance. At this point, I will give the user three choices: - delete the Card - edit the Card - show again the "list of all cards" My (probably stupid) idea was to write a "form" without input fields, showing only the information on the cards, and having 3 buttons for DELETE, EDIT and LIST. Now I understand that a submit button in a form helper for a form_for, which has as argument an existing object, automatically calls the "update" function. Thinking about it, this makes sense, and I now think that I was misusing the form_for(). Maybe I should just output the data without using a form at all, and use button_to() if I want the clickable part look or behave like buttons, or use links and style them as buttons, as you pointed out. In any case, using a form in my particular case, doesn't make much sense. Would you agree on that? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/a1e40d17786e980f2fba3705ab8aade8%40ruby-forum.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
