Rails: Transmit <select><option> value into link_to()

Ruby
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[Still trying to safely get on the Rails mailing list…]

Rubies:

The great thing about Web programming is there’s so many languages to
chose
from - or mix together.

Specifically, an ERb page can contain 3 languages:

<% for record in @table %> <%= h(record.name) %> <% end %>

Okay, that’s a combobox with names and values in it.

Now how do I let the user select one option, and send it to the next
page
with link_to()?

<%= link_to ‘Go to Next Page’,
{:action => ‘goToNextPage’, :id => ??? }
%>

The third potential language is JavaScript, so in theory I could add an
onclick event to each , or similar, then express the link_to in
raw
HTML…

Go to Next Page

…then use the onclick event to change the href attribute.

However, that’s not very Railish, and I’m sure there’s some feature
available which my newbescence has overlooked!

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Phlip wrote:

[Still trying to safely get on the Rails mailing list…]

Do you mean to say you meant this to go there? It… didn’t.

The great thing about Web programming is there’s so many languages to
chose
from - or mix together.

Not to be mean, but… Isn’t that true about all programming?
Especially with the .NET CLR and it’s ability to interoperate between
languages easily. I see this as being huge eventually. (Ruby has a gem
that allows you to use .NET libraries, and of course C libraries… So
it’s already walking down this path. And I’m very much looking forward
to Ruby.NET.)

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William C. wrote:

[Still trying to safely get on the Rails mailing list…]

Do you mean to say you meant this to go there? It… didn’t.

I didn’t say that.

I mean when I tried to register before nothing happened, and when I try
to
register today I get this:

http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/subscribe/rails

blah blah blah

IOError: [Errno 28] No space left on device

I’m tormented with the urge to blame Python, but the problem is
apparently
the drive filled up with mail!

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On 9/15/06, Phlip [email protected] wrote:

I mean when I tried to register before nothing happened, and when I try to
register today I get this:

http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/subscribe/rails

The Rails mailing list is no longer there. It’s a Google Group, now.

-austin

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Austin Z. wrote:

http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/subscribe/rails

The Rails mailing list is no longer there. It’s a Google Group, now.

Yay! Could someone tell us on that page?!