Amit Solanki

In one of my projects I came across a situation where I needed to submit a form with a link. By default, a form is submitted either using a submit_tag or button_to helpers in ruby on rails. In this case it had to be submitted through a link. For this, I searched and found a way to do it:

<%= link_to_remote 'Submit', :url => {:controller => 'c_name', :action => 'a_name', :id => 'some_id'}, :with => "Form.Element.serialize('form_id')" %>

Alternatively, you can also use the following helper:

<%= link_to_function 'Submit', remote_function(:url => {:controller => 'c_name', :action => 'a_name', :id=>'some_id'}, :method => :post, :with => "Form.serialize('form_id')") %>

The form can be passed using the optional paramter :with.