Checkboxes - Saving a Checked record to another table

Rails
1

I am displaying a bunch of records from a table called “assets”. Next
to each record i have a checkbox. When this box is checked i want to be
able to save the id of the record into another table called
“flagged_assets”. All I need is the ID, nothing else. Im struggling
with the logic to save to another table. I know how to do it if the
asset_id is already in the “flagged_assets” table.

when flag_assets page is loaded

def flag_assets
@assets = Asset.find :all
end

Called when Ajax form is submitted

def get_flagged

to_flag = params[:to_be_flagged]

 if to_flag
   to_flag.each do |asset_id, flag|
	 @assets = FlaggedAsset.find_all_by_asset_id(asset_id)
	   for asset in @assets
	    if flag == "yes"
	     asset.flag = 1
	    else
	     asset.flag = 0
	    end
	   asset.save!
     end
  end

end
render :text => “

Assets have been Flagged

”
end

def get_flagged

to_flag = params[:to_be_flagged]

 if to_flag
   to_flag.each do |asset_id, flag|
	 @assets = Test.find_all_by_asset_id(asset_id)
	   for asset in @assets
	    if flag == "yes"
	     asset.flag = 1
	    else
	     asset.flag = 0
	    end
	   asset.save!
     end
  end

end
render :text => “

Assets have been Flagged

”
end
2

Please disregard the second def get_flagged method. Pasted by accident.

3

Adam wrote:

I am displaying a bunch of records from a table called “assets”. Next
to each record i have a checkbox. When this box is checked i want to be
able to save the id of the record into another table called
“flagged_assets”. All I need is the ID, nothing else. Im struggling
with the logic to save to another table. I know how to do it if the
asset_id is already in the “flagged_assets” table.

when flag_assets page is loaded

def flag_assets
@assets = Asset.find :all
end

Called when Ajax form is submitted

def get_flagged

to_flag = params[:to_be_flagged]

 if to_flag
   to_flag.each do |asset_id, flag|
	 @assets = FlaggedAsset.find_all_by_asset_id(asset_id)
	   for asset in @assets
	    if flag == "yes"
	     asset.flag = 1
	    else
	     asset.flag = 0
	    end
	   asset.save!
     end
  end

end
render :text => “

Assets have been Flagged

”
end

def get_flagged

to_flag = params[:to_be_flagged]

 if to_flag
   to_flag.each do |asset_id, flag|
	 @assets = Test.find_all_by_asset_id(asset_id)
	   for asset in @assets
	    if flag == "yes"
	     asset.flag = 1
	    else
	     asset.flag = 0
	    end
	   asset.save!
     end
  end

end
render :text => “

Assets have been Flagged

”
end
Hi Adam,

From what I understand you want to only store the ID of those that are
checked into a new table. In this case why donâ??t you iterate through
all the checked boxes in the hash and create a new FlaggedAsset object
with the ID for each iteration?

By the way, why donâ??t you put a flag column in the Asset table, instead
of creating a new table?

Bob