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Diffstat (limited to 'actionview/lib/action_view/helpers/form_helper.rb')
| -rw-r--r-- | actionview/lib/action_view/helpers/form_helper.rb | 61 |
1 files changed, 54 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/actionview/lib/action_view/helpers/form_helper.rb b/actionview/lib/action_view/helpers/form_helper.rb index 03f80ff360..ece117b547 100644 --- a/actionview/lib/action_view/helpers/form_helper.rb +++ b/actionview/lib/action_view/helpers/form_helper.rb @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ require 'action_view/helpers/tag_helper' require 'action_view/helpers/form_tag_helper' require 'action_view/helpers/active_model_helper' require 'action_view/model_naming' +require 'action_view/record_identifier' require 'active_support/core_ext/module/attribute_accessors' require 'active_support/core_ext/hash/slice' require 'active_support/core_ext/string/output_safety' @@ -66,9 +67,10 @@ module ActionView # # In particular, thanks to the conventions followed in the generated field names, the # controller gets a nested hash <tt>params[:person]</tt> with the person attributes - # set in the form. That hash is ready to be passed to <tt>Person.create</tt>: + # set in the form. That hash is ready to be passed to <tt>Person.new</tt>: # - # if @person = Person.create(params[:person]) + # @person = Person.new(params[:person]) + # if @person.save # # success # else # # error handling @@ -110,6 +112,7 @@ module ActionView include FormTagHelper include UrlHelper include ModelNaming + include RecordIdentifier # Creates a form that allows the user to create or update the attributes # of a specific model object. @@ -138,6 +141,7 @@ module ActionView # will get expanded to # # <%= text_field :person, :first_name %> + # # which results in an HTML <tt><input></tt> tag whose +name+ attribute is # <tt>person[first_name]</tt>. This means that when the form is submitted, # the value entered by the user will be available in the controller as @@ -164,6 +168,23 @@ module ActionView # * <tt>:namespace</tt> - A namespace for your form to ensure uniqueness of # id attributes on form elements. The namespace attribute will be prefixed # with underscore on the generated HTML id. + # * <tt>:method</tt> - The method to use when submitting the form, usually + # either "get" or "post". If "patch", "put", "delete", or another verb + # is used, a hidden input with name <tt>_method</tt> is added to + # simulate the verb over post. + # * <tt>:authenticity_token</tt> - Authenticity token to use in the form. + # Use only if you need to pass custom authenticity token string, or to + # not add authenticity_token field at all (by passing <tt>false</tt>). + # Remote forms may omit the embedded authenticity token by setting + # <tt>config.action_view.embed_authenticity_token_in_remote_forms = false</tt>. + # This is helpful when you're fragment-caching the form. Remote forms + # get the authenticity token from the <tt>meta</tt> tag, so embedding is + # unnecessary unless you support browsers without JavaScript. + # * <tt>:remote</tt> - If set to true, will allow the Unobtrusive + # JavaScript drivers to control the submit behavior. By default this + # behavior is an ajax submit. + # * <tt>:enforce_utf8</tt> - If set to false, a hidden input with name + # utf8 is not output. # * <tt>:html</tt> - Optional HTML attributes for the form tag. # # Also note that +form_for+ doesn't create an exclusive scope. It's still @@ -420,6 +441,7 @@ module ActionView html_options[:data] = options.delete(:data) if options.has_key?(:data) html_options[:remote] = options.delete(:remote) if options.has_key?(:remote) html_options[:method] = options.delete(:method) if options.has_key?(:method) + html_options[:enforce_utf8] = options.delete(:enforce_utf8) if options.has_key?(:enforce_utf8) html_options[:authenticity_token] = options.delete(:authenticity_token) builder = instantiate_builder(object_name, object, options) @@ -836,6 +858,24 @@ module ActionView # # file_field(:attachment, :file, class: 'file_input') # # => <input type="file" id="attachment_file" name="attachment[file]" class="file_input" /> + # + # ==== Gotcha + # + # The HTML specification says that when a file field is empty, web browsers + # do not send any value to the server. Unfortunately this introduces a + # gotcha: if a +User+ model has an +avatar+ field, and no file is selected, + # then the +avatar+ parameter is empty. Thus, any mass-assignment idiom like + # + # @user.update(params[:user]) + # + # wouldn't update the +avatar+ field. + # + # To prevent this, the helper generates an auxiliary hidden field before + # every file field. The hidden field has the same name as the file one and + # a blank value. + # + # In case you don't want the helper to generate this hidden field you can + # specify the <tt>include_hidden: false</tt> option. def file_field(object_name, method, options = {}) Tags::FileField.new(object_name, method, self, options).render end @@ -1188,11 +1228,11 @@ module ActionView object_name = model_name_from_record_or_class(object).param_key end - builder = options[:builder] || default_form_builder + builder = options[:builder] || default_form_builder_class builder.new(object_name, object, self, options) end - def default_form_builder + def default_form_builder_class builder = ActionView::Base.default_form_builder builder.respond_to?(:constantize) ? builder.constantize : builder end @@ -1208,7 +1248,7 @@ module ActionView # Admin: <%= person_form.check_box :admin %> # <% end %> # - # In the above block, the a +FormBuilder+ object is yielded as the + # In the above block, a +FormBuilder+ object is yielded as the # +person_form+ variable. This allows you to generate the +text_field+ # and +check_box+ fields by specifying their eponymous methods, which # modify the underlying template and associates the +@person+ model object @@ -1229,6 +1269,7 @@ module ActionView # ) # ) # end + # end # # The above code creates a new method +div_radio_button+ which wraps a div # around the new radio button. Note that when options are passed in, you @@ -1887,7 +1928,11 @@ module ActionView explicit_child_index = options[:child_index] output = ActiveSupport::SafeBuffer.new association.each do |child| - options[:child_index] = nested_child_index(name) unless explicit_child_index + if explicit_child_index + options[:child_index] = explicit_child_index.call if explicit_child_index.respond_to?(:call) + else + options[:child_index] = nested_child_index(name) + end output << fields_for_nested_model("#{name}[#{options[:child_index]}]", child, options, block) end output @@ -1917,6 +1962,8 @@ module ActionView end ActiveSupport.on_load(:action_view) do - cattr_accessor(:default_form_builder) { ::ActionView::Helpers::FormBuilder } + cattr_accessor(:default_form_builder, instance_writer: false, instance_reader: false) do + ::ActionView::Helpers::FormBuilder + end end end |