On Wednesday, October 10, 2012 3:28:45 PM UTC+1, Colin Law wrote: > > On 10 October 2012 08:47, paul h <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > rails 3.2.8 > > > > I must be missing something basic (and it's been driving me mad) because > I > > am trying to send one additional data attribute to my controller from a > > link, but I can't seem to get it into the params received by the > controller. > > > > I have looked around and found answers, but none seem to affect my > links. > > > > I've set up a dummy app with a home page and a single link to a contacts > > page - here is the code: > > > > routes.rb > > > > root :to => 'home#index', :as => 'home' > > resource 'contacts' > > > > Haml Home Page View > > > > # I want to be able to display 'bar' on the contacts page > > = link_to "Contacts", contacts_path, :data => {:foo => 'bar'} > > > > The generated html link: > > > > <a href="/contacts" data-foo="bar">contacts</a> > > > > But I don't receive the foo attribute in the params object in the show > > action of ContactsController. > > > > If I add {:method => :post} to link_to, then it routes to the create > action > > of the ContactsController but again, foo is missing. > > > > = link_to "Contacts", contacts_path, {:method => :post, :data => {:foo > => > > 'bar'}} > > > > generates: > > > > <a href="/contacts" data-foo="bar" data-method="post" > > rel="nofollow">contacts</a> > > What do you see in development.log when you click the link. It should > show you the parameters being passed. Also if you do params.inspect > what do you see? You can put that in a view or use a debugger. >
Hi Colin, That's basically what I was doing - passing params.inspect to the view so I could see exactly was there. I wasn't getting anything other than the standard params hash you'd expect for a simple link - controller, action, id. Thanks for the reply. > > Colin > -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rubyonrails-talk/-/eY70AMA7EAkJ. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
