Hi guys Am a newbie in rails please forgive my ignorance. i have set of search results i have appended a checkbox to each of the results and would like to give the user some freedom to choose what he/she likes and manipulate or explore them further. my problem is how to determine which checkboxes are checked and return an array of their names, which the server can process. how do you achieve that in rails? Thank you. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
If I understand you correctly, then in your controller you would like an
array of the checked items which you will access from params.
I have recently done this for assigning roles to users:
My controller action looked like this:
def assign_roles
user_roles = params[:role]
user_roles.each do |job|
UserRole.create(:user_id => params[:user_id], :role_id =>
job.to_i)
end
redirect_to ''somewhere else''
end
The params[:role] in this case is an array of checked options from the form.
To see how this is achieved here is the view code:
<% for role in @roles %>
<tr>
<td><%= role.role_type %></td>
<td><%= check_box_tag "role[]", role.id,
checked=false
%></td>
</tr>
<% end %>
As you can see, the name for the check_box_tag is an array - role[]. The
value that is returned is the id of the role (as a string - hence the to_i
after job in the controller).
The value is only returned if the checkbox is checked so you get an array of
all the checked id''s.
Regards
Ivor
On 5/1/07, George George
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>
> Hi guys
> Am a newbie in rails please forgive my ignorance.
> i have set of search results
>
> i have appended a checkbox to each of the results and would like to give
> the user some freedom to choose what he/she likes and manipulate or
> explore them further.
>
> my problem is how to determine which checkboxes are checked and return
> an array of their names, which the server can process.
>
> how do you achieve that in rails?
>
> Thank you.
>
> --
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
> >
>
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Ivor Paul wrote:> If I understand you correctly, then in your controller you would like an > array of the checked items which you will access from params. > > I have recently done this for assigning roles to users: > > My controller action looked like this: > > def assign_roles > user_roles = params[:role] > user_roles.each do |job| > UserRole.create(:user_id => params[:user_id], :role_id => > job.to_i) > end > redirect_to ''somewhere else'' > end > > > The value is only returned if the checkbox is checked so you get an > array of > all the checked id''s. >Thanks Ivor, i got the method right but am wondering what is happening when i do this: My view has this <%form_tag :action=>''selected'' do%> <%for result in @results%> <td><check_box_tag "result[]",result.id,checked=false%></td> <%end%> <%end%> And the in the controller i have this method def selected @selected_items=params[:result] end The selected.rhtml <%=@selected%> however i get a blank page. but when i inspect the logs i see that the parameters were posted. how do i get the checked ids rendered or displayed to the user? Thanks -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---