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Document form_for behaviour when using file_field inside the block

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Joost Baaij 2010-09-21 15:11:04 +02:00
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actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/form_helper.rb
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@ -668,11 +668,13 @@ module ActionView
InstanceTag.new(object_name, method, self, options.delete(:object)).to_input_field_tag("hidden", options)
end
# Returns an file upload input tag tailored for accessing a specified attribute (identified by +method+) on an object
# Returns a file upload input tag tailored for accessing a specified attribute (identified by +method+) on an object
# assigned to the template (identified by +object+). Additional options on the input tag can be passed as a
# hash with +options+. These options will be tagged onto the HTML as an HTML element attribute as in the example
# shown.
#
# Using this method inside a +form_for+ block will set the enclosing form's encoding to <tt>multipart/form-data</tt>.
#
# ==== Examples
# file_field(:user, :avatar)
# # => <input type="file" id="user_avatar" name="user[avatar]" />

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railties/guides/source/form_helpers.textile
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@ -549,7 +549,7 @@ will produce the same output if the current year is 2009 and the value chosen by
h3. Uploading Files
A common task is uploading some sort of file, whether it's a picture of a person or a CSV file containing data to process. The most important thing to remember with file uploads is that the form's encoding *MUST* be set to "multipart/form-data". If you forget to do this the file will not be uploaded. This can be done by passing +:multi_part => true+ as an HTML option. This means that in the case of +form_tag+ it must be passed in the second options hash and in the case of +form_for+ inside the +:html+ hash.
A common task is uploading some sort of file, whether it's a picture of a person or a CSV file containing data to process. The most important thing to remember with file uploads is that the rendered form's encoding *MUST* be set to "multipart/form-data". If you use +form_for+, this is done automatically. If you use +form_tag+, you must set it yourself, as per the following example.
The following two forms both upload a file.
@ -558,11 +558,13 @@ The following two forms both upload a file.
<%= file_field_tag 'picture' %>
<% end %>
<%= form_for @person, :html => {:multipart => true} do |f| %>
<%= form_for @person do |f| %>
<%= f.file_field :picture %>
<% end %>
</erb>
NOTE: Since Rails 3.1, forms rendered using +form_for+ have their encoding set to <tt>multipart/form-data</tt> automatically once a +file_field+ is used inside the block. Previous versions required you to set this explicitly.
Rails provides the usual pair of helpers: the barebones +file_field_tag+ and the model oriented +file_field+. The only difference with other helpers is that you cannot set a default value for file inputs as this would have no meaning. As you would expect in the first case the uploaded file is in +params[:picture]+ and in the second case in +params[:person][:picture]+.
h4. What Gets Uploaded