Hi guys, just a simple question that seems unanswered on RoR books, I just skimmed 4 of them. I''ve a Contact model and I''ve a Note model. Now I want a link on the page that shows the contact enabling the user to add a new note for that contact. Now on the contact page I want to place an ''add note''. I want the user to write the note on a separate page. How can I pass the ID of the contact to the page? Where should I place this ID in the form for the note? (a hidden field?, is there an helper for this?) How should I write the action to store this note, I mean how can I distinguish the note ID from the contact ID? At the end I''ve a great doubt, am I completely wrong and should I change the way to develop in RoR? This last question is even more important so if the right way to do what I''m asking is different please tell me. 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
So you have a link on the Contact page pointing to an "Add Note". That
would be something like
<% link_to "Add Note", {:controller => "notes",
:action => "create", :
contact_id => 10} %>
This would move the relevant contact_id to the notes controller and
you can get it using params[:contact_id] in the create method like so
@note = Note.new
@note[''contact_id''] = params[:contact_id]
Since you would have a contact_id field defined in the Note model, it
would then make sense to define a hidden field in your
notes->create.rhtml view like so
<% hidden_field :note, :contact_id %>
Should work. Let me know.
Regards,
Rajesh
On Aug 17, 6:45 pm, Nik Nik
<rails-mailing-l...-ARtvInVfO7ksV2N9l4h3zg@public.gmane.org>
wrote:> Hi guys,
> just a simple question that seems unanswered on RoR books, I just
> skimmed 4 of them. I''ve a Contact model and I''ve a Note
model. Now I
> want a link on the page that shows the contact enabling the user to add
> a new note for that contact.
> Now on the contact page I want to place an ''add note''. I
want the user
> to write the note on a separate page. How can I pass the ID of the
> contact to the page? Where should I place this ID in the form for the
> note? (a hidden field?, is there an helper for this?) How should I write
> the action to store this note, I mean how can I distinguish the note ID
> from the contact ID?
> At the end I''ve a great doubt, am I completely wrong and should I
change
> the way to develop in RoR? This last question is even more important so
> if the right way to do what I''m asking is different please tell
me.
>
> Thank you.
> --
> Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.
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K. Rajesh wrote:> So you have a link on the Contact page pointing to an "Add Note". That<snip>> Regards, > RajeshThat helps me a lot! Thank you Rajesh Perry -- 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
Hi Rajesh,
first of all thank you!
I changed a couple of things I would like to share with the others in
the forum:
1.
In the code:
<% link_to "Add Note", {:controller => "notes",
:action => "create",
:contact_id => 10} %>
I placed :contact_id = @contact.id, to make it general.
2.
I''ve a single controller for edit and create so I modified the
controller with:
@note = Note.find_by_id(params[:id]) || Note.new
@note.contact_id = params[:contact_id] || @note.contact_id
this way it works both when creating a new note and when editing.
Nik
>
> This would move the relevant contact_id to the notes controller and
> you can get it using params[:contact_id] in the create method like so
> @note = Note.new
> @note[''contact_id''] = params[:contact_id]
>
> Since you would have a contact_id field defined in the Note model, it
> would then make sense to define a hidden field in your notes-
>>create.rhtml view like so
> <% hidden_field :note, :contact_id %>
>
> Should work. Let me know.
>
> Regards,
> Rajesh
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If you choose to use RESTful routes, you could also nest the Notes resources within the Contact resources. In that way, the url will contain the id for the contacts and it will be available by implication in the notes_path that you''d use for your forms. AndyV On Aug 20, 12:15 pm, Nik Nik <rails-mailing-l...-ARtvInVfO7ksV2N9l4h3zg@public.gmane.org> wrote:> Hi Rajesh, > first of all thank you! > I changed a couple of things I would like to share with the others in > the forum: > > 1. > In the code: > <% link_to "Add Note", {:controller => "notes", :action => "create", > :contact_id => 10} %> > > I placed :contact_id = @contact.id, to make it general. > > 2. > I''ve a single controller for edit and create so I modified the > controller with: > > @note = Note.find_by_id(params[:id]) || Note.new > @note.contact_id = params[:contact_id] || @note.contact_id > > this way it works both when creating a new note and when editing. > > Nik > > > > > This would move the relevant contact_id to the notes controller and > > you can get it using params[:contact_id] in the create method like so > > @note = Note.new > > @note[''contact_id''] = params[:contact_id] > > > Since you would have a contact_id field defined in the Note model, it > > would then make sense to define a hidden field in your notes- > >>create.rhtml view like so > > <% hidden_field :note, :contact_id %> > > > Should work. Let me know. > > > Regards, > > Rajesh > > -- > Posted viahttp://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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
Sorry to hijack this, but I have a similar question that revolves around a RESTful design: I am only working with one class - Person. But each person can have one parent. parent_id is used to link them to another person (each person only has one parent). This RESTful style link <%= link_to "Create New Person", new_page_path %> will take me to the form to create a new person. But that person will not have a parent_id set (similar to Nik''s origninal problem) I can pass the value to the params hash using this: <%= link_to "Create New Person", new_page_path(:parent_id => @person.id) %> But now I run into the problem that in my RESTful controller, there is a new action for the form which then passes to the create action (to actually create the object). How would I keep the reference to params[:person_id] so that it could be passed on to the create action? I like the idea that Nik has of using one action for edit and new. Is it a necessity of RESTful design to have the standard 7 actions (index, show, new, create, edit, update, destroy) separate or would it be considered okay (DRY even) to combine them (or omit them in the case of new, where a postback could be used instead of passing from the new action to the create action)? cheers, DAZ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---