Rails - Jul 2007 - Drag&Drop w/ Rest

So I have run into a problem:

I have a restful setup where a user clicks on an item to view it.  
once viewing the item, they can drag&drop characteristics onto the item.

map.resources :items, :member => { :apply => :post }

in the drop_receiving_element I have:

url => apply_item_path(@item)

The problem is when you drag&drop, it does post to the action, but  
the passed parameters are :id, which is @item.id, characteristic.id  
is nowhere to be found. I''m assuming there is an issue with the  
routes not passing the additional parameter.

Any help would be appreciated


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cloper wrote:
> The problem is when you drag&drop, it does post to the action, but
> the passed parameters are :id, which is @item.id, characteristic.id
> is nowhere to be found. I''m assuming there is an issue with the
> routes not passing the additional parameter.
You are right -- because the route isn''t nested, the URL and path 
helpers have no knowledge about passing on other variables. This is not 
to say that I recommend nesting the resource, because that wouldn''t
seem
to reflect reality.

What you can always do is post additional variables by using the 
old-school { :controller, :action, :var1, :var2, :varx }  hash (which in 
no violates RESTfulness) or simply name the drag & drop element as 
"characteristic_id" and do a quick @characteristic = 
Characteristic.new(params[:characteristic_id]) in your controller.

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Roderick van Domburg
Nedforce <http://www.nedforce.nl>

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