Been searching but nothing comes close to my question, except this php question.
In my react component, using Rails 5, I could upload an image to S3 only if I submit the form; I don't want to refresh the page so I thought I could simply use ajax for that:
...
imageUpload(){
var formData = $(this).serialize();
$.ajax({
url: '<url>',
type: 'POST',
data: formData,
async: false,
cache: false,
contentType: false,
processData: false,
success: function (data) {
console.log(data);
},
error: function () {
alert("error in ajax form submission");
}
});
},
...
The html:
<form encType="multipart/form-data" acceptCharset="UTF-8">
<input
type="file"
name="user[evidence]"
id="user_evidence"
/>
<button className="success button small" onClick={this.imageUpload}>Upload</button>
</form>
The goes to the update method (ajax url finds the method no problem):
...
def update
u = User.find(1)
u.update_attributes(user_evidence) # causing ajax to return an error
end
private
def user_evidence
params.require(:user).permit(:evidence)
end
When an image is added and button is clicked, nothing uploads to s3. I guess I'm missing some sort of remote information with the ajax?
EDIT:
I have created a simple rails 5 app with this issue here.
