Rails - May 2009 - pass hidden field to the controller

How do I get the value form the hidden field and pass it to the
controller?Also how do I get the value in the controller.

On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 4:30 PM, prabesh shrestha
<prabesh708-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
>
> How do I get the value form the hidden field and pass it to the
> controller?Also how do I get the value in the controller.
If you include a hidden field in a form, you can access it from params
in the controller

so, if you have the following in the view
hidden_field_tag ''field_name'', ''value''

You can get it in the controller as
params[:field_name]

Andrew Timberlake
http://ramblingsonrails.com
http://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewtimberlake

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education" - Mark
Twain

Thanks Andrew.

On May 21, 8:17 pm, Andrew Timberlake
<and...-642hCh26+Dt3UeSHeRwt+FaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 4:30 PM, prabesh shrestha
<prabesh...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> > How do I get the value form the hidden field and pass it to the
> > controller?Also how do I get the value in the controller.
>
> If you include a hidden field in a form, you can access it from params
> in the controller
>
> so, if you have the following in the view
> hidden_field_tag ''field_name'', ''value''
>
> You can get it in the controller as
> params[:field_name]
>
> Andrew
Timberlakehttp://ramblingsonrails.comhttp://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewtimberlake
>
> "I have never let my schooling interfere with my education" -
Mark Twain