Is there an easy way to move data from one table and copy it

Rails
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to another?

i would like my website to be able to have the user to fill out a web
form. i then would like to have a view of my own to either accept or
reject what the user filled out. if i accept it, i want the info deleted
from where it was stored and then store it to the ‘public’ database.

i guess its all of a matter of saving each field in the form to a temp
table. when i select the “accept” button, just create a hash that maps
all the fields for the user and update the “public” table and then
delete the user info in the temp table.

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bbqTree wrote:

to another?

i would like my website to be able to have the user to fill out a web
form. i then would like to have a view of my own to either accept or
reject what the user filled out. if i accept it, i want the info deleted
from where it was stored and then store it to the ‘public’ database.

i guess its all of a matter of saving each field in the form to a temp
table. when i select the “accept” button, just create a hash that maps
all the fields for the user and update the “public” table and then
delete the user info in the temp table.

The way I thought about doing this was to have an “approved” field in
the database. This flag defaults to zero. The admin views the
submission, and changes the approved flag to 1 . The view would only
show the submission if the approval flag is set to 1 . In this way,
there is no need to copy data around .

Let me know if this makes sense, as I need to implement something
similar myself soon.

Chris

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hmm, that sounds like a good idea. instead of 0 for not approved and 1
for approved, make the “yet to be approved” field to -1. during non-peak
hours, delete all the 0’s that been disapproved.

Chris L. wrote:

bbqTree wrote:

to another?

i would like my website to be able to have the user to fill out a web
form. i then would like to have a view of my own to either accept or
reject what the user filled out. if i accept it, i want the info deleted
from where it was stored and then store it to the ‘public’ database.

i guess its all of a matter of saving each field in the form to a temp
table. when i select the “accept” button, just create a hash that maps
all the fields for the user and update the “public” table and then
delete the user info in the temp table.

The way I thought about doing this was to have an “approved” field in
the database. This flag defaults to zero. The admin views the
submission, and changes the approved flag to 1 . The view would only
show the submission if the approval flag is set to 1 . In this way,
there is no need to copy data around .

Let me know if this makes sense, as I need to implement something
similar myself soon.

Chris