Rails - Dec 2006 - Multiple Values in Form Field and Creating Multiple Records

Hi,

I want to be able to have users enter one or more email addresses in a
field and have a database row created for each of those email addresses.

The contents of the database row would be:

created_on
job_id
user_id
email_address

Here is an example of my form output:

{"commit"=>"Send",
"email"=>{"created_on"=>"12-29-2006 @ 14:12
PM",
"job_id"=>"1", "user_id"=>"4",
"email_address"=>"email-WNbSnoOWcWBBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org,
email-dL8jOpOjefRBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org,
email-msFaK4W69elBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org"}}

I can easily get the values for created_on, job_id, and user_id, but how
do I iterate over the email addresses?

Thanks,

David

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Hi David,

David Lelong wrote:
> I want to be able to have users enter one or more email addresses in a 
> field and have a database row created for each of those email addresses.
>
> Here is an example of my form output:
>
>
"email_address"=>"email-WNbSnoOWcWBBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org,
> email-dL8jOpOjefRBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org,
email-msFaK4W69elBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org"}}
>
> how do I iterate over the email addresses?
Assuming your email address table was named something like
''addresses'' you
could do something like...

params[:email_address].each('','') {|this_address|
   address_to_add = Address.new
   address_to_add.created_on = params[:created_on]
   address_to_add.job_id = params[:job_id]
   address_to_add.user_id = params[:user_id]
   address_to_add.email_address = this_address
   address_to_add.save
}

hth,
Bill 



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