Rails - Jan 2006 - Insert to associated table question

Hello Friendly Gurus,
I have a volunteers table and an hours tables.  I''ve edited the 
respective models to have: "hours belongs_to :volunteer" and
"volunteers
has_many :hours".  My problem is, I don''t know how to set the 
volunteer_id column in the hours table to the appropriate value so that 
hours will belong to volunteers.

I''ve added the following line to list.rhtml in the volunteers view so I
can pass the volunteer id to the hours new action:
"<td><%= link_to ''Add Hours'', :controller =>
''hours'', :action => ''new'',
:id => volunteer %></td> "

My thought is that I would pass the volunteer id to the hours controller 
and convert it into a hidden field in the "new" form so that we can
use
it to populate the volunteer_id column.   This is how the PHP Spaghetti 
coder in me would have done it, but I suppose there is a more elegant 
Rails way to do this.  I hope you can help.

Thank you in advance!
-Sean Clark, Rails Nube and recovering PHP Spaghetti Coder

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STFW, Sean! (Awesome!  I got to finally do that to someone that won''t
be
offended!)
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/01/20/rails.html - parts 4 and 5 
begin to show how to tie 2 tables together.

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