Forms not submitting inside Bootstrap modal with Turbolinks turned on Rails 4

Question

I've made forms to be submitted in modals provided by Bootstrap 3.0. However the forms only submit when I refresh the page and not when the pages get turbolinked. On turbolinking I can keep clicking the submit button and nothing happens. This only happens in production for some reason.

Removing turbolinks fixes the problem but I want the speed gains from it.

One issue I think it could be is that the modals are initially display:none; so it may be an issue that the forms are not loaded properly.

I'll test form submissions without the modals but it's a must for the application I'm making.

deals_controller.rb

def create
@deal = Deal.new(deal_params)
@deal.team = @team
@deal.user_id = current_user.id

respond_to do |format|
  if @deal.save
    format.html { redirect_to team_deals_path(@team), notice: 'Deal was successfully created.' }
    format.json { render action: 'show', status: :created, location: @deal }
  else
    @deals = @team.deals.all
    iwantmodal
    should_modal_be_open
    format.html { render action: 'index' }
    format.json { render json: @deal.errors, status: :unprocessable_entity }
  end
end
end

I have the form located in the index action itself.

_form.html.erb

<div id="dealModal" class="modal fade">
<div class="modal-dialog">
<div class="modal-content">
  <div class="modal-header">
    <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal" aria-hidden="true">&times;</button>
    <h4 class="modal-title">New Deal</h4>
  </div>
  <div class="modal-body">
    <%= simple_form_for([@deal.team, @deal]) do |f| %>
      <%= f.error_notification %>

      <div class="form-inputs">
        <%= f.input :person_id do %>
          <%= f.input_field :person_id, :collection => @team.people, class: "col-lg-10" %>
          <%= link_to content_tag(:i, nil, class: 'glyphicon-plus'), new_team_person_path, type: 'button', class: 'btn btn-success col-lg-2' %>
        <% end %>
        <%= f.input :organization_id do %>
          <%= f.input_field :organization_id, :collection => @team.organizations, class: "col-lg-10" %>
          <%= link_to content_tag(:i, nil, class: 'glyphicon-plus'), new_team_organization_path, type: 'button', class: 'btn btn-success col-lg-2' %>
        <% end %>

        <%= f.input :title %>
        <%= f.input :value %>
        <%= f.input :currency_id, :include_blank => false , :collection => Currency.all,  label_method: lambda { |obj| t("#{obj.extension}") } %>

        <%= f.input :start_date, :as => :datetime_picker, input_html: {class: "deal_start_date"} %>
        <%= f.input :close_date,:as => :datetime_picker, input_html: {class: "deal_close_date"} %>

        <%= f.input :status, collection:['Pending', 'Won','Lost'], :include_blank => false %>
        <%= f.input :phone %>
        <%= f.input :visibility_id, collection: Visibility.all,:include_blank => false %>
        <%= f.input :email %>
        <%= f.input :stage_id, :collection => @team.stages, :include_blank => false %>
      </div>
  </div>
  <div class="modal-footer">
    <div class="form-actions">
      <%= f.button :submit, class:"btn btn-primary", remote: true, method: :post %>
    </div>
  </div>
<% end %>

</div><!-- /.modal-content -->
</div><!-- /.modal-dialog -->
</div><!-- /.modal -->



<script type="text/javascript">

if(<%= @modal %>) {
  $('#dealModal').modal('show')
}
</script>

The script is just used to keep the modal open in case there are validation errors in the form.

Answer 1

try installing this gem, it should help sort the jquery issues regarding turbolinks jquery turbolinks

Answer 2

Try adding the following to your form:

remote: true

And then add:

format.js

to your controller action.

This way the form will be submitted using some javascript magic. You'll need to wire up the js.erb templates too.