I want to provide the user with two ways to add a task. The quick way and the detailed way pretty much like google calendar allows for its events. On clicking the "Add Quickly" link a form with just a title field appears immediately below. For "Add Detailed" the user is taken to a new page where a form with fields for title, due, location etc Im wondering in my controller should I create two new actions i.e. new_quick and new_detailed or should I somehow (not sure how) just use logic in the one new controller? Im fairly new to rails so just trying to stick to best practices. Ive implemented these already in a slapshot way and using link_to_remote but just want to tidy it up as much as possible. Any help greatly appreciated. -- 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
Andrew Timberlake
2009-Feb-17 13:26 UTC
Re: coding form variations for object creadtion and CRUD
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Adam Akhtar < rails-mailing-list-ARtvInVfO7ksV2N9l4h3zg@public.gmane.org> wrote:> > I want to provide the user with two ways to add a task. The quick way > and the detailed way pretty much like google calendar allows for its > events. > > On clicking the "Add Quickly" link a form with just a title field > appears immediately below. > For "Add Detailed" the user is taken to a new page where a form with > fields for title, due, location etc > > Im wondering in my controller should I create two new actions i.e. > new_quick and new_detailed > > or should I somehow (not sure how) just use logic in the one new > controller? > > Im fairly new to rails so just trying to stick to best practices. Ive > implemented these already in a slapshot way and using link_to_remote but > just want to tidy it up as much as possible. > > > Any help greatly appreciated. > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > > >If you''re using mass assignment, you can keep a single, simple create method and then each form can just send through more parameters (make sure all the fields for the detailed version are optional in your model) def create task = Task.new(params[:task]) if task.save #success else #failed end end Then both of these could work post :create, :task => {:title => ''Test''} and post :create, :task => {:title => ''Test'', :location => ''Here'', :due => Time.now} Andrew Timberlake http://ramblingsonrails.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewtimberlake "I have never let my schooling interfere with my education" - Mark Twain --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---