I am really new to Ruby on Rails, so I apologize if this is a really
simple question but I just can’t think of how I could do this. I want
there to be a button that will add a drop down menu to the screen, and
then depending on what the user selects it will add either a text
field or a text “area” it will add the selected one to the right of
the menu. Also, the user would have to be allowed to delete certain
“fields” as well. Then when the user submits the form Ruby on Rails
will be able to see how many menus were made as well as read what the
user put in all of them. I hope this makes sense, but if it doesn’t,
just ask for clarification.
will be able to see how many menus were made as well as read what the
user put in all of them. I hope this makes sense, but if it doesn’t,
just ask for clarification.
If anyone could help, it would be great.
Hello Peirce,
I am a newbie myself, so take any ideas I give you with a great big
grain of
salt, but I think you have two options here:
Instead of a button, use a link. Then, when the user clicks on the
link,
your controller could gather the information submitted (such as what was
selected) and redirect the browser to a new page which would present the
same information plus either a text field or a text area. This has the
benefit of simplicity and sticks with what you probably already know
(hopefully), but it will be somewhat clunky and look different than the
more
modern way of doing what you describe.
The more modern way of doing what you describe is to use JavaScript
and
AJAX to dynamically render new portions of your page dependent upon what
the
user has entered so far. This has the benefit of looking very slick
when
done well, but requires that you learn something about JavaScript and
AJAX.
Fortunately, there are a lot of resources (in the form of web pages with
tutorials as well as a plethora of books at your local technical
bookstore).
Hopefully, these couple of ideas will get you thinking in one direction
or
another.
I am really new to Ruby on Rails, so I apologize if this is a really
simple question but I just can’t think of how I could do this. I want
there to be a button that will add a drop down menu to the screen, and
then depending on what the user selects it will add either a text
field or a text “area” it will add the selected one to the right of
the menu. Also, the user would have to be allowed to delete certain
“fields” as well. Then when the user submits the form Ruby on Rails
will be able to see how many menus were made as well as read what the
user put in all of them. I hope this makes sense, but if it doesn’t,
just ask for clarification.
If anyone could help, it would be great.
Hi Pierce,
Your example is explained in a difficult way. Could you point at an
example on a existing website?
Actually, what you describe here is pretty much a lot of UI stuff, this
can be done with AJAX and showing / hiding html elements.
Ruby on Rails in not a magic wand even you can do a magical stuff with
it.
I have read your description a couple of times and with a “I am
missing something” filing.
Perhaps you should first do a simple paper prototyping and then when
all actions are known and clear move to implementation.
Since this look like a simple web application, more like a students
homework, perhaps the Ruby on Rails is not a right tool for it.
Take look at Sinatra http://sinatra.rubyforge.org/ perhaps it’s
sufficient framework for your task.
On Dec 26, 8:56 pm, Michael Hendrickx <rails-mailing-l…@andreas-
I don’t know about the first suggestion, but I know that the second
option can work but brings up some problems… For example, when the
page is refreshed the user looses all of the new fields. Also, it
gets hard to manage in Javascript (at least the way that is below)
because it gets a lot of code.
Yeah, I kind of assumed it was hard to hard to understand. I have
wrote a quick example using Javascript, which is below this text. I
know how to do this in Javascript, but there are some problems so I am
looking if there is a way to do this in Ruby on Rails. The problems
with doing it in Javascript are outlined above.
@Dejan D.
As I said, I kind of guessed that it would be hard to understand. I
hope the code below makes more sense, but if not just say so and I
will try to explain it better. Pretty much, a button/link creates a
new object and shows it on the page. Preferably it would not loose
the new fields (and their values) on a refresh. I am doing a rewrite
of a web application in Ruby on Rails, and am wondering how to avoid
doing this in Javascript again.
I suppose there really isn’t a reason why I need to do this in Ruby on
Rails, but Javascript brings up some problems and I think it may be
easier in Ruby on Rails in general. If anyone could give me some
advice about this, it would be great.
