Keep form fields filled after an error (RoR)

Question

After validation, I got an error and I got returned back to :action => :new. Some field on form already filled, so I want to keep them filled even after erro

Answer 1

Your View (new.html.erb) something like following

<%= error_message_for :user %>
<% form_for :user, :action=>"create" do|f|%>

<%= f.text_field :login %>

<% end %>

Controller Code (create method)

def create
  @user=User.new(params[:user])
  if @user.save
     redirect_to :action=>'index'
  else
     render :action=>'new'  #you should render to fill fields after error message
  end
end

Answer 2

Since in my case the form was in the view of another controller I did use flash to store my data and then check if there is data in flash present. If yes take this for default values for your input fields, if not just show whatever you want to show then.

So snippets from my code

flash[:date] = start_date

# in the view where to form resides
start_day = flash[:date].nil? nil : flash[:date].day
# ...
<%= select day start_day ... %>

Hope that helps some of you ;-).