[Rails] Form handling problem.

[Lon Baker]

I have conquered nearly all my challenges in moving from Java to Rails. 
The last major issue I am encountering is related to multiple submit 
buttons in a form. I have read various comments about how can you 
possibly need more than one submit button and am open to realistic 
alternatives.

Here is the situation.

I have table rows with checkboxes to select records where the user can 
take a number of actions upon a selected set of records.  The user also 
needs be able to page through a set of records and select records from 
various pages.

My experience tells me that the buttons for the actions, paging through 
the records and the checkboxes need to be in a single form. Unless I 
resort to some javascript kung-fu that I am hoping to avoid for other 
reasons.

Does anyone have any suggestions or solutions to multiple submit 
buttons in a single form under rails?

I amy simply be inept due to my old webobjects/java habits so please 
excuse me if this is apparent.

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Lon