Re: Getting input''s value from a form

Jason M. Winn
Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:43:13 -0000

thanks Jabbslad, I forgot about just using text_field_tag


On Feb 27, 2008, at 10:20 AM, Jabbslad wrote:

>
> You can just use the id of the tag to retrieve the value from the
> params hash, e.g.
>
> Assuming you have something like this in your view:-
>
>   <%= text_field_tag ''number'' %>
>
> You should be able to access it in your controller using:-
>
>   :number => params[''number'']
>
> Is that what you were after?
>
> Jabbslad
>
> On Feb 27, 5:52 pm, "Jason M. Winn"
<jasonmw...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> 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
>>>>       )
> >