I want to be able to change a property on multiple records in my app. I thought about adding a checkbox so that one can pick which records to update. The question is how to implement the actual update - if the checkbox isn''t part of the model, how can I iterate the records in the view and see which are selected? My records are displayed using a partial: # _product.html.erb <%= check_box_tag ''modify'' %> <%=h product.name %> <%=h product.price %> # index.html.erb <% form_tag %> <%= text_field_tag ''price'' %> <%= render :partial => ''product'', @collection => @products %> <%= submit_tag ''save'' %> <% end %> Also, what kind of form should I put this in, and how to catch which boxes are selected... I''m pretty clueless about this - thanks. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
I''ve decided on a different approach and I could use some help: The page containing the records to modify also contains a small form to filter the displayed records. It uses observe_form to periodically call a function to filter the view. I want to use this form filter as a selector on which records to update - it will be a two step process: 1. the user picks which records to update by applying the filter. 2. the user will update attributes using a different form. The filter works by taking the selected attributes in it''s form and calling a helper function that returns a :conditions array "cond" to use with activerecord''s find function - @products = Product.find(:all, :conditions => cond). This is all fine, but I have one problem - how can get have the filter''s conditions available to the updating function (which isn''t called from the observe_form helper)? If I could have the :conditions available when I search which records to update, then everything will be simpler. Any advice will be more than welcomed :) -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---