# Pass a varible from view to controller

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pass-a-varible-from-view-to-controller/161094>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [February 23, 2009, 11:21am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pass-a-varible-from-view-to-controller/161094 "2009-02-23T11:21:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ishara\_G](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/e68b1a/32.png) [@Ishara\_G](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Ishara_G)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 11:21am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pass-a-varible-from-view-to-controller/161094/1 "2009-02-23T11:21:38Z")

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please can anyone suggest me a code to pass a variable whichis in the  
view  
to controller

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**Author:** ![Ishara\_G](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/e68b1a/32.png) [@Ishara\_G](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Ishara_G)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 11:37am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pass-a-varible-from-view-to-controller/161094/2 "2009-02-23T11:37:44Z")

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Ishara G. wrote:

> please can anyone suggest me a code to pass a variable whichis in the  
> view  
> to controller

Can you please provide the exact problem? So that can try for solution.

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**Author:** ![Ishara\_G](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/e68b1a/32.png) [@Ishara\_G](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Ishara_G)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 12:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pass-a-varible-from-view-to-controller/161094/3 "2009-02-23T12:44:25Z")

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On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 2:37 AM, Priya B. \<  
removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid\> wrote:

> Ishara G. wrote:
> 
> > please can anyone suggest me a code to pass a variable whichis in the  
> > view  
> > to controller
> 
> Can you please provide the exact problem? So that can try for solution.

Hi, I agree with Priya. What are you trying to do exactly? Please  
provide  
a use case or  
scenario.

-Conrad

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**Author:** ![Ishara\_G](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/e68b1a/32.png) [@Ishara\_G](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Ishara_G)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 1:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pass-a-varible-from-view-to-controller/161094/4 "2009-02-23T13:41:57Z")

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Yes

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**Author:** ![Ishara\_G](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/e68b1a/32.png) [@Ishara\_G](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Ishara_G)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 1:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pass-a-varible-from-view-to-controller/161094/5 "2009-02-23T13:27:15Z")

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basically you got two possibilities:

1. write the value into a session-variable  
session[:wtf] = “some string or value”

2. pass your value as a parameter to some action and read params in  
your controller:  
view:  
\<%= link\_to “my\_action” :controller =\> :bla, :action  
=\> :my\_action, :wtf =\> “some string or value” %\>  
controller:  
def my\_action  
puts params[:wtf]  
end