Rails - Sep 2007 - How to create a record in another table ?

Hi

In my Delphi GUI apps, it is common functionality
a) to select a row
b)then  ''append to'' ie create a row to another table with
similar
table structure

I guess the analogy would be to copy a record to another table by
clicking an action link

How can we do it wth ActiveScaffold ?

I think the solution is to copy the record as follows :-

def self.add_transfer_action
    # The copy action
    define_method(:copy) do
      new
    end

    # Override the do_new to implement copy behavior
    define_method(:do_new) do
      super
      if params["action"] == "transfer"
        model = active_scaffold_config.model
        copied_record = model.find(params[:id])


       # how do I specify the target controller ?
        model.columns.each do |column|
          @record.send("#{column.name}=",
            copied_record.send("#{column.name}")) unless column.name
            model.primary_key
        end
       #
      end
    end
end

Q. How and where do I specify the target table in the above-mentioned
code


--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~
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
-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

I''m not sure how it will be different for ActiveScaffold as I
don''t
use it, but to do the actions you described in RoR, you can use
the attributes property:

Assuming that you already have the source row called src,
you can do

target_row = TargetTable.new(src.attributes)

--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~
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
-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---