Passing an entire form with a HTML hyperlink

In one of my projects I came across a situation where I needed to submit a form with a link. By default, a form is submitted either using a submit_tag or button_to helpers in ruby on rails. In this case it had to be submitted through a link. For this, I searched and found a way to do it:

<%= link_to_remote 'Submit',
    :url=>{:controller=>'c_name', :action=>'a_name', :id=>'some_id'},
    :with=>"Form.Element.serialize('form_id')"
%>

Alternatively, you can also use the following helper:

<%= link_to_function 'Submit',
    remote_function(:url=>{:controller=>'c_name',
                           :action=>'a_name',
                           :id=>'some_id'},
                    :method=>:post,
                    :with=>"Form.serialize('form_id')")
%>

The form can be passed using the optional paramter :with.