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...interrest to others. The purpose of this agi script is to provide an online telephone directory that can be easily accessed using the numbers on the phone dial pad. You select entries by spelling out the name of the person you want to contact using the phone dial pad. Now this is normally pretty labourious so the script provides a few shortcuts to make things easier. The best way to illustrate this is by example: Say you want to phone John Smith: - You would start by typing 5, this would find all entries that start with j,k or l. - Next you would type 6 which would narrow down the selection to all t...

...nding the appropriate category and using that. I''m using the scaffolding at the moment, so the code looks like: @category = Category.new(params[:category]) I know that there must be a way of easily assigning all the values in the params hash, and looking up the correct parent, without labouriously assigning each value manually ie @category.name = params[:category][:name] ... @category.parent = Category.find(params[:category][:parent] ... ... So any ideas? Kev