So I feel really stupid right now, but I can't seem to find an answer.
So I have a method which needs to be called EXACTLY once, and since this is only the experimental phase, I decided that a simple button should suffice. However, I can't seem to find out how to / if I can simply call the method from a button click.
The method is in home_controller.rb and the button is in index.html.erb
Any ideas? Or is this not something I can do?
<%= form_tag home_action_path, method: :post do %> <%= submit_tag 'Call Action' %> <% end %> could also use a link
<%= link_to 'Call Action', home_action_path, method: :post %> or you can use button_to
<%= button_to 'Call Action', home_action_path, method: :post %> in your routes
post 'home/action' 
Take a look at button_to.
Example shows you can do something like
<%= button_to "Some Button", :method=> "someButton" %> 
Another option is to create a route for your action and call it that way. Forgive me, I'm not sure what your home_controller.rb is doing. If it is the controller for your home page, I believe a pages_controller.rb with a home method is more conventional for Rails.
If that were the case, and assuming the method you want to call is named call_action,
Your pages_controller.rb would look something like:
class PagesController < ApplicationController #... def call_action <<does something really nifty>> end end Your config/routes.rb would look like:
AppName::Application.routes.draw do #... resources :pages do collection do get :call_action end end end The link on your home page at views/pages/home.html.erb would look like this:
<%= link_to "Call Action", call_action_pages_path %> You should run rake routes on your command line to make sure you have the correct route, then stick _path on the end of it.
If you want your link to be a button, you can create a styled class for that and append it to your link:
<%= link_to "Call Action", call_action_pages_path, class: "button" %> Or wrap it in a styled class:
<div class="button"> <%= link_to "Call Action", call_action_pages_path %> </div> 
<%= button_to 'Invite a user', new_project_invite_path, method: :get, remote: true, class: 'btn primary' %> If you don't want it to be an Ajax call then you can remove remote: true
It's as easy as adding method_controller_path to the HTML.
For instance, I have a route filaments/new, and to add a button that links to it from any view:
<%= button_to "Add", new_filament_path, method: :get %>
