text_area method is not providing either id or name attributes

[josemotanet]

The title is self-explanatory but here's my own example:

Code

form_for :event, "/events", class: "row" do
  text_area :notes, placeholder: "Some text here.", class: "form-control", rows: 6
end

Output

<form action="/events" method="post" class="row" id="event-form">
  <textarea rows="6" class="form-control" placeholder="Some text here"></textarea>
</form>

It is expected that the textarea has:

• A name attribute with the value of event[notes];
• An id attribute with the value of event-note.

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EDIT: The root cause of the bug is the inability to store both name and id when no content is passed in. Check the discourse

[runlevel5]

Good find, would you be able to submit a PR? TIA

[pascalbetz]

Without looking into the code: shouldn't it be:

form_for :event, "/events", class: "row" do |f|
  f.text_area :notes, placeholder: "Some text here.", class: "form-control", rows: 6
end

(Form builder passed as a block argument).

[runlevel5]

@pascalbetz nope

eg:

form_for :book, routes.books_path do
    text_field :title

    submit 'Create'
  end

[josemotanet]

@joneslee85 yes, absolutely. You'll need to give me some time, though. My wife is in the hospital, it seems that my baby wants to be born any hour now. :) I'll be in touch.

[AlfonsoUceda]

@josemota you are right, it should be like the example https://github.com/lotus/helpers#view-usage

congrants for the baby!

[pascalbetz]

@joneslee85 i was referring to the first example at http://lotusrb.org/guides/helpers/forms/ but without checking the text below. Argh.

@josemota : all the best!

[josemotanet]

@joneslee85 @pascalbetz My baby's been born! She's growing steadily now in the incubator for some time. Until then, I'll be on the lookout but I'll try and squeeze in some time to work something out.

Please bear with me :)

[josemotanet]

I've found the cause of this bug. It seems that not passing any content while still passing other HTML options to the method will simply not register either name or id.

text_area :notes, "forced content", rows: 1 # expected behavior is met
text_area :notes, rows: 1 # expected behavior is NOT met

I recall there's a place in the code where both of these are handled so I'll dig deeper. I'll edit the initial message with this mention for better contextualization.