Hi
I am new to RoR and practice some ruby/rails language feathers on my
toy application. Here is a question about form_for tag in rails.
== the story
People profile can be modified by end user, so there is method called
“update_profile” in the controller.
== the view
<% form_for :person,@person, :url => …do |f|%>
<%f.hidden_field :id %>
<%f.text_field :ppl_name%>
…
<% end%>
== the controller
def update_profile
person = Person.new(params[:person])
puts person.id
person.new_record = false;
person.save
end
When I print person.id out, the value is nil. However, i can set the
id using below code
person.id = params[:ppl_id]
Can someone explain why so weird? Thanks
–jack
On Feb 9, 2:35 am, “jack.tang” [email protected] wrote:
person.new_record = false;
person.save
end
When I print person.id out, the value is nil. However, i can set the
id using below code
person.id = params[:ppl_id]
Can someone explain why so weird? Thanks
–jack
I think if you are using form_for you need to use update_attributes()
to update the record
On Feb 9, 1:35 am, “jack.tang” [email protected] wrote:
Hi
== the controller
def update_profile
person = Person.new(params[:person])
puts person.id
person.new_record = false;
person.save
end
You don’t want to create a new Person, do you? You want to just find
the existing person and update it:
person = Person.find(params[:id])
person.update_attributes(params[:person])
And also, new_record is generally something you don’t want to touch -
rails will control it automatically.
Jeff