Re: Getting input''s value from a form

Jason M. Winn
Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:52:51 -0000

If I could get the values without persist to the database, that would
be perfect. how can I do that?

On Feb 27, 2008, at 9:47 AM, Jabbslad wrote:

>
> If you just want a CreditCard instance but do not want to persist it
> to the database you can use:-
>
>  CreditCard.new(:first_name => @user.first_name,
>         :last_name => @user.last_name,
>         :number => #pick up from the form,
>         :month => #pick up from the form,
>         :year => #pick up from the form,
>         :brand => #pickup from the form )
>
> Is that what you are asking or do you want to know how to pull the
> values out of the params hash?
>
> Jabbslad
>
> On Feb 27, 5:09 pm, Keaja
<jasonmw...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> I am following a new tutorial just added to the upcoming book,
>> Advanced Rails Recipes. The recipe is, "Process Recurring Credit
Card
>> Payments". The tutorial is great and I recommend picking up the
PDF
>> book.
>>
>> Simply put, there is a card server, and a then your main application
>> which is used to pass credit card numbers to the server.
>>
>> The problem I am having, is how do I get the parameters from the form
>> into  the controller without storing them in the  model? It would be
>> easy if I was storing the credit card number and expiration date in
>> the user model, but I am not for security, so I cannot call
>> @user.credit_card number. I guess I need something like
>> page["input_credit_card].value?
>>
>>     if @user.save
>>       self.current_user = @user
>>       cc = CreditCard.create(:first_name => @user.first_name,
>>         :last_name => @user.last_name,
>>         :number => #pick up from the form,
>>         :month => #pick up from the form,
>>         :year => #pick up from the form,
>>         :brand => #pickup from the form
>>       )
> >