Form is submitting when the page loads
- by RailAddict
I have a really simple Rails app. Basically an article with comments. I want the article page to show the article, comments underneath and then a textbox to write a comment and a submit button to submit it.
I got it all working except for one (big) problem. When the page loads.. example.com/article/1
a blank comment is submitted to the database.
I fixed that by including "validates_presence_of :body" in the Comment model. But that results in the following image when the page loads:
This is my code by the way:
def show
@place = Article.find(params[:id])
@comment = Article.find(params[:id]).comments.create(params[:comment])
respond_to do |format|
format.html # show.html.erb
format.xml { render :xml => @article }
end
end
and
<% form_for([@article, @comment]) do |f| %>
<p>
<%= f.label :commenter %><br />
<%= f.text_field :commenter %>
</p>
<p>
<%= f.label :body %><br />
<%= f.text_area :body %>
</p>
<p>
<%= f.submit "Create" %>
</p>
<% end %>
