# "employee"=\>{"id"=\>"101"}

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/employee-id-101/130982>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 4, 2008, 11:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/employee-id-101/130982 "2008-03-04T23:34:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![thriller](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/47e85d/32.png) [@thriller](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/thriller)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2008, 11:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/employee-id-101/130982/1 "2008-03-04T23:34:13Z")

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I am newbie to ruby as my question reveals. Can anybody help me,  
please, how to acces id when i get something like  
“employee”=\>{“id”=\>“101”} in request, thanxs a lot.

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**Author:** ![thriller](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/47e85d/32.png) [@thriller](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/thriller)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 12:31am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/employee-id-101/130982/2 "2008-03-05T00:31:46Z")

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Your description makes no sense. But I’ll give it a shot.

If you have an array of parameters called employee, you can access the  
id attribute more like

params[:employee][:id]

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**Author:** ![thriller](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/47e85d/32.png) [@thriller](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/thriller)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 3:23am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/employee-id-101/130982/3 "2008-03-05T03:23:37Z")

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You should read up on hashes. You most likely want:

params[:employee][:id]

Mike

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**Author:** ![thriller](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/47e85d/32.png) [@thriller](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/thriller)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 3:52am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/employee-id-101/130982/4 "2008-03-05T03:52:25Z")

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On 3/4/08, thriller [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> I am newbie to ruby as my question reveals. Can anybody help me,  
> please, how to acces id when i get something like  
> “employee”=\>{“id”=\>“101”} in request, thanxs a lot.

params[:employee][:id]

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**Author:** ![thriller](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/47e85d/32.png) [@thriller](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/thriller)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 5:39am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/employee-id-101/130982/5 "2008-03-05T05:39:47Z")

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thriller wrote:

> I am newbie to ruby as my question reveals. Can anybody help me,  
> please, how to acces id when i get something like  
> “employee”=\>{“id”=\>“101”} in request, thanxs a lot.
> 
> >

Try

params[:employee]

and

params[:employee][:id]

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