Rails - Jul 2008 - Passing strings from model to a form, to edit the information

Yeah,

I''m trying to develop a "User Profile" and want to show some
forms with the
content stored in database. I search in documentation but i don''t find
anything useful. I try

at controller:
@u = User.find(:last)

at view:

<%  form_for :user |f| do %>
   f.text_field :name, :object => @u.name
<% end %>

But what''s object really does?

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Don''t know, what you''re doing here. You should use:
@user = User.find(:last)

Then:
<%  form_for :user |f| do %>
    f.text_field :name
<% end %>

Is all you need. If you use form_for :user, then
Rails expects the data to be in object @user and
if you use f.text_field instead of the simple text_field,
then Rails knows already, that the object to be used
is that bound to the form (@user in htis case) and
knows, that :name is @user.name
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