Database table row creation method

Rails
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I have following view for user input:

Post new thing

<%= form_tag :action => 'create' %>

Title
<%= text_field 'thing', 'title' %>

Description
<%= text_area 'thing', 'description' %>

Email
<%= text_field 'thing', 'email' %>

<%= submit_tag "Create" %> <%= form_tag %>

… and following controller that populates data (one row) in database

def create
@thing = Thing.new(params[:thing])
end

So far it is working. But I need to add one more parameter to @thing
variable that doesn`t come from user input. It comes from another model
(:another_main_thing_id). What is the syntax for adding this parameter
to @thing variable.
Thank you!

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On 8 Mar 2009, at 09:42, Renars Sirotins wrote:

So far it is working. But I need to add one more parameter to @thing
variable that doesn`t come from user input. It comes from another
model
(:another_main_thing_id). What is the syntax for adding this parameter
to @thing variable.

There’s an accessor function created for you for each database
attribute

Fred