Passing data example does not work

[abrambailey]

From your readme:

<%= render_async users_path,
                 method: 'POST',
                 data: { fresh: 'AF' },
                 headers: { 'Content-Type': 'text' } %>

When I tried this, I get:

=> <ActionController::Parameters {"{:fresh"=>">"AF"}", "controller"=>"pages", "action"=>"sidebar_ads"} permitted: false>

[nikolalsvk]

Hey @abrambailey, thanks for creating an issue.

It looks like you maybe need to permit fresh as a parameter for your controller action. Are you doing that?

I'm guessing it would be something like this:

def user_params
  params.require(:user).permit(:fresh, ...)
end

[abrambailey]

I was not doing this. Actually, I ended up just passing the data through the path like users_path(fresh: 'AF') in the end. Not sure why I didn't do that to begin with 😆

[nikolalsvk]

Ah OK 😄 Did you still need to permit the attribute you were passing in? (I'm trying to check whether there's actually a bug in the gem with the example you provided in the first comment)

[abrambailey]

No, I didn't ... it worked perfectly without needing to permit using my method.

[nikolalsvk]

If you're trying to update the user, you probably need to make it like this

<%= render_async users_path,
                 method: 'POST',
                 data: { user: { fresh: 'AF' } },
                 headers: { 'Content-Type': 'text' } %>

[nicholaswellens]

I had the same problem, where the params started with eg. "{:fresh"=>">"AF"}". Worked around it by sending in JSON format:

eg.

<%= render_async users_path,
                 method: 'POST',
                 data: { fresh: 'AF' }.to_json,
                 headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' } %>