Newbie question: How to get an object in the Controller from

Rails
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Hi,
I’m trying to pass an object from the View to the controller as a
hidden field. And am confused about a few things.

For a hidden field, how do I pass a complete object to the
controller?
For example, I have an object of type Issue, what should the second
argument be in the following:

<%= hidden_field(“issue”, ?, “value” => @issue) %>

Is that even possible?

Secondly, how would I access this object in the controller?
params[:issue][:id] doesn’t work.

Someone suggested I should put the object in the session. How do I
put and retrieve variables from the session?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Anupam.

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Fields are HTML not Ruby. They only hold text. You can do @issue.id
then the controller is going to have to use .to_i to get an integer
and Issue.find_by_id to locate the object.

Michael