Re: Rails Framework Documentation - More Info, Please

Conrad Taylor
Wed, 20 Dec 2006 08:29:00 -0000

Hey Brian, if you take another look at the AWDwRv2, it provides the
answer for you on page 484 of the PDF.  You may also see usage on page
162 as well.  Next, are you attempting to edit the password field?  I
believe this is the case.  Then you''ll need to do the following:

:value => ""

Note:  The option that you use for the password_field would be very
similar to the options that you would use within HTML.

Good luck,

-Conrad

On 12/19/06, Bryan Cox
<rails-mailing-list-ARtvInVfO7ksV2N9l4h3zg@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
>
> Hey all,
>
> I try to ask intelligent question about Ruby on Rails, and only after I
> search for the answers myself.  Recently, I''ve hit a frustrating
bump on
> the learning curve and it seems really stupid.
>
> I''m making a user system, and working on the update method.  When
I
> create the form in the same manner as taught in Agile Development with
> Rails and a number of other tutorials (assign an object in the
> controler, and then use FormHelper methods to create the form in the
> view) I run into issues with the password field.  I hash all the
> passwords, and they''re inputted by default into the passsword
field.  I
> want this field to be blank, like the password_confirmation field is,
> but I don''t know how.
>
> So I looked at the rails documentation, and the password helper works
> just like the text_field helper... okay, so I look at the documentation
> for THAT, and here is where the problem is, and I''ve seen this a
number
> of times before.
>
> When I look at the documentation (reference:
>
http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/FormHelper.html#M000389),
> I look at text_field at the very bottom.  It lists as parameters three
> things.  I figure that the solution to my problem is by passing an
> option in the options hash.  But I don''t know the syntax and
don''t want
> to guess at it.  Tell me how, generally, to find a list of available
> options for a function -- I can''t seem to figure it out.  This
would
> help me a number of different times, because I run into this issue quite
> often.
>
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