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I have a list of checkboxes within a form, which has two buttons. I'm trying to pass in separate paramaters to the buttons as described here:

Is there a way to pass params when clicking submit button in simple_form view in rails 3.2.12?

But it's not passing in the parameters. My code is as follows: 

<%= simple_form_for :pupils, url: edit_multiple_school_group_pupils_path(school, group) do |f| %>
  ...
  ...
  <%= f.button :submit, 'Change Levels', name: 'editing', value: 'levels' %>
  <%= f.button :submit, 'Move to A Class', name: 'editing', value: 'classes' %>
<% end %>

I've tried various other methods, and have seen a few posts about giving the buttons separate ids and calling params[:commit], however no commit params are sent.

Any help is greatly appareciated.

EDIT:

The HTML output of the form buttons are:

<input type="submit" name="editing" value="levels" class="btn" />
<input type="submit" name="editing" value="classes" class="btn" />

Rails console log:

Started POST "/school/2/classes/3/pupils/edit_multiple" for 127.0.0.1 at 2017-08-08 17:08:58 +0100
Processing by Schools::Admin::PupilsController#edit_multiple as HTML
Parameters: {"utf8"=>"✓", "authenticity_token"=>"0ncVG1+MfuS13ystwdUe/vEzF30f1iHS/F0u0DDflOXKnkw8hcUhv/n2eJZuZHOA4gZxuITahMFbyTdG/B5cEQ==", "pupil_ids"=>["134", "129"], "school_id"=>"2", "group_id"=>"3"}
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I recently ran into this issue. I have two submit buttons within a simple_form_for. When I post the form to the controller the :commit params are missing.

My solution is to use jquery to capture the click event for the submits that writes the submit value to a hidden input. I can then use that input value to control logic in the controller.

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