Pretty standard stuff: 1. User fills out form 2. User submits form 3. User thinks "doh! an error!" 4. User hits the browser back button 5. User updates the data in the form 6. User *thinks* he is updating the data by hitting submit again, but inserts another record.
Now we have two records in the database, one is the correct one, and one is the bad one. How do we know witch one is the good one? The second one! I hear you all scream. But does that mean we should delete the first one? How do you deal with this situation? I think it is quite obvious what the user intended to do, and we should, in our webapp, do what the user wanted to do, not annoy him with stupid error messages like "Sorry, you can't submit the same form twice", or "Sorry, a record with this ID already exists in our database" Is there a nice solution in rails to this very frequent problem in web applications? Thanks -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
