[Rails] Can rails make use of accesskeys?

[Morten Liebach]

On 2006-01-01 15:36:49 +0000, Justin Forder wrote:
> Bruce Balmer wrote:
> 
> >Justin:
> >
> >Yes. I am. I have also tried the command key, the option key, the  shift 
> >key and all possible permutations of them.  I read a couple of  comments 
> >on the web which indicate that access keys are not working  in Safari 
> >although apple seems to think they are.  But I can't really  find 
> >anything definitive.  I am hoping that someone who is using  Safari can 
> >confirm they ARE working and tell me how they do it.
> 
> That's strange - I tried this with Safari on Tiger before replying, by 
> making a small modification to a toy application in Locomotive, and then 
> retyped the relevant line in my message on a Windows machine.
> 
> Let me do this from scratch:

[snip]

> save, view in browser - I can navigate through that link either by 
> clicking on it or by using Ctrl-g

Yes, Ctrl is the modifier in Safari.

> This is using Locomotive 1.0

I'm using Darwinports and gem installed RoR and I've been having some
trouble with extra HTML attributes too, and I found out the {}'s are
significant:

<%= link_to "Goodbye!", {:action => "goodbye"}, :accesskey => "g",
    :title => "Bye bye!" %>

Works.  Whereas this:

<%= link_to "Goodbye!", :action => "goodbye", :accesskey => "g",
    :title => "Bye bye!" %>

Doesn't work, instead it generates a link pointing to
"/say/goodbye?accesskey=f&amp;title=Bye+bye%21".

It's probably obvious why, and I think I know the reason.  I expect to
be sure sometime later in Agile Web Dev w. RoR, I'm just too much of a
newbie to take my chances explaining it yet in public. :-)

Anyway, Bruce, this might be the same problem you're having.  Maybe not.

Have a nice day
                                 Morten

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