Rails - Feb 2005 - Passing parameters to component methods

Hello,

I have just upgraded to 0.10.0 and I am experimenting with packaging 
some
of the functionality of my web site into components.  Maybe I am missing
something obvious but I don''t see any way to pass a parameter to a 
method
for a component.  For example, using the example from
http://manuals.rubyonrails.com/read/chapter/73, if I wanted to pass a
range of image ids to the recent_image method, how would I do it?  I 
have
looked at the source for 
actionpack-1.5.0/lib/action_controller/components.rb
and I don''t see any provision for specifying parameters, only the 
controller
and action.

Thanks,
Kim

On Feb 28, 2005, at 9:06 AM, Kim wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have just upgraded to 0.10.0 and I am experimenting with packaging 
> some
> of the functionality of my web site into components.  Maybe I am 
> missing
> something obvious but I don''t see any way to pass a parameter to a
> method
> for a component.  For example, using the example from
> http://manuals.rubyonrails.com/read/chapter/73, if I wanted to pass a
> range of image ids to the recent_image method, how would I do it?  I 
> have
> looked at the source for 
> actionpack-1.5.0/lib/action_controller/components.rb
> and I don''t see any provision for specifying parameters, only the 
> controller
> and action.
>
> Thanks,
> Kim
>
>
To answer my own question, I did find the obvious solution.  You can 
use the
:params symbol to pass in a hash of key/value pairs.

<%= render_component(:controller => ''gallery/image'',
:action =>
''recent_image'', :params => { ''image_ids''
=> 1..10 }) %>

Kim