Form separate from ActiveRecord

Rails
1

This has to be so easy (and probably obvious) that I’m going to be
embarrassed when I see the answer.

I have a front end form that - depending on what the user selects and
enters - will cause different actions to take place. There is no
ActiveRecord associated with the front end, so I don’t have an object to
instantiate for the form to work with.

Do I need to create a dummy class to for the form, or is there a simpler
way to get to data off of it. Ideally, I’d like to do a

if request.post?
if @inputDat.xxx == …
end

type of check and redirect to the action that handles what the user is
wanting to do.

Thanks in advance

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all the forms Post data will be in the params[] hash.

forms are never bind to a specific model, the params[] hash always
contains the POST data of a submitted form

so if you have a

you can access this fields content with params[:search]

etc. etc.

3

Thorsten L wrote:

all the forms Post data will be in the params[] hash.

forms are never bind to a specific model, the params[] hash always
contains the POST data of a submitted form

so if you have a

you can access this fields content with params[:search]

etc. etc.

I knew it was going to be obvious, but I didn’t think my (usual) case of
tunnel vision was that bad.

Thanks much
—Michael