Rails - Jun 2006 - finding one db entry and how to display it in a view

Here is my controller:

class BrowseController < ApplicationController
  def index
    @products = Product.find(:all)
  end

  def item
    @products = Product.find(:all, :conditions => "id =
#{params[:id]}")
  end
end


---

the ''item'' method is bothering me, because I know I should be
able to
simply do:


  def item
    @product = Product.find(params[:id])
  end

but then I don''t know how to access it in the view other than,

<% for column in Product.content_columns %>

which I don''t want to do, I want to be able to call @product.name, 
@product.etc, directly... Any ideas?

TIA

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If your controller is and you do have a param named id:

def item
>     @product = Product.find(params[:id])
>   end

Then you can get attributes for your @product object in your view:

<%= @product.name %>

Assuming name is a valid attribute and you actually found a product object
in the controller. You may want to put this in your view to see that you
actually found anything:

<%= debug( @product ) %>

HTH,
Jeff


On 6/22/06, will willis <silent11@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Here is my controller:
>
> class BrowseController < ApplicationController
>   def index
>     @products = Product.find(:all)
>   end
>
>   def item
>     @products = Product.find(:all, :conditions => "id =
#{params[:id]}")
>   end
> end
>
>
> ---
>
> the ''item'' method is bothering me, because I know I
should be able to
> simply do:
>
>
>   def item
>     @product = Product.find(params[:id])
>   end
>
> but then I don''t know how to access it in the view other than,
>
> <% for column in Product.content_columns %>
>
> which I don''t want to do, I want to be able to call @product.name,
> @product.etc, directly... Any ideas?
>
> TIA
>
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> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
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