Rails - Nov 2012 - Magic variable: params and :id

I enabled this line in `route.rb`

    match '':controller(/:action(/:id))(.:format)''

The HTML generated by `erb` is like this:

    <form method="post" action="/client_workouts/find"
accept-charset="UTF-8">
    <input type="hidden" value="✓"
name="utf8">
    <input type="hidden"
value="UFX2eg089kb5Al3qcJXJvJEFYwFnkXCj+dsmXTYLszE="
name="authenticity_token">
    <input type="text" name="search_string"
id="search_string">
    <input type="submit" value="Search"
name="commit">
</form>


In the controller, it looks like this:


    def find
      puts params[:search_string]
    end



When I input some text in the text_field and click `Search`, the `find`
function can print out the value of that text.

This looks magic to me. Because in the `route`, the variable name is
`id`, but in the `controller`, this variable can be used by `params`. I
was wondering whether `id` is a magic variable that maps to `param`.


Does anyone have ideas about this. Thanks!

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On Nov 28, 2012, at 10:46 AM, Hanfei S. wrote:
> I enabled this line in `route.rb`
> 
>    match '':controller(/:action(/:id))(.:format)''
> 
> The HTML generated by `erb` is like this:
> 
>    <form method="post"
action="/client_workouts/find"
> accept-charset="UTF-8">
>    <input type="hidden" value="✓"
name="utf8">
>    <input type="hidden"
> value="UFX2eg089kb5Al3qcJXJvJEFYwFnkXCj+dsmXTYLszE="
> name="authenticity_token">
>    <input type="text" name="search_string"
id="search_string">
>    <input type="submit" value="Search"
name="commit">
> </form>
> 
> 
> In the controller, it looks like this:
> 
> 
>    def find
>      puts params[:search_string]
>    end
> 
> 
> 
> When I input some text in the text_field and click `Search`, the `find`
> function can print out the value of that text.
> 
> This looks magic to me. Because in the `route`, the variable name is
> `id`, but in the `controller`, this variable can be used by `params`. I
> was wondering whether `id` is a magic variable that maps to `param`.
> 
> 
> Does anyone have ideas about this. Thanks!
In the controller, every parameter that was gleaned from the routing process is
available in the params hash. This includes anything that was named in the route
that matched the request, and POST or querystring (GET) variables. The only
parts of the request that are not in that hash are the session and cookie
parameters.

This gives you a one-stop-shop for any parameter you need, without having to
specify in great detail precisely where you might have expected to find that
parameter.

Walter
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