I think you are right ;). But since form_for didn't work I went with the yuck part and hope that nobody will ever find out.
On Mar 17, 11:28 am, "\"Wolas!\"" <[email protected]> wrote: > i am guessing fred wants you to use form_for :) > > On Mar 16, 3:40 pm, Frederick Cheung <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > On Mar 16, 1:45 pm, jak4 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I assumed thetext_areahelper would access the local > > > variable :external_space, but of course does not. Instead it looks for > > > @external_space. If it doesn't find one, it creates an empty text > > > area. > > > > Can I somehow provide a local variable, or am I out of luck here? > > > either assign the local variable to an instance variable (yuck) or use > > form for which allows you to bind fields to non-instance variables. > > > Fred > > > > Best regards > > > jak4 > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

