Call controller method on button click, without a redirect (rails 2.3)

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I am new to rails, coming in from an angular background. Is there are way to have a button trigger a controller method without having the page redirect? I would also like to somehow tie input fields to controller variables without getting models involved.

What I have is a multi-page form (customer's design, not mine). On each page I want to validate user input, but I don't want to create a model for every field of what will end up being one cohesive object.

You can use ajax. Are you using ruby 2.3? Or do you actually mean rails 2.3? — j-dexx, Jun 14 '16 at 15:46
Rails 2.3 supports RJS. Checkout what is RJS here.http://stackoverflow.com/q/459647/5076451 — Venkat Ch, Sep 01 '16 at 10:13

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 14 '16 at 15:48

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You can call a controller action using AJAX. Just bind and ajax call on some button's onClick event and that's it. Also take a look at remote: true from jQuery-ujs
You can also validate fields with JS if you don't want to touch models

answered Jun 14 '16 at 15:48

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Call controller method on button click, without a redirect (rails 2.3)

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