When I try to add the form element in a partial: <%= f.hidden_field :profile_id, :value => profile_id %>
I get an error that f is unknown. Is there a way to add form elements with a partial? On Mar 18, 4:10 pm, Frederick Cheung <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mar 18, 10:29 pm, Dave L <[email protected]> wrote:> Okay, thats what I was > going to do in the beginning, but the problem > > is how to define the variable for that if else statement. This is for > > a login, so for a certain page I was thinking about inserting a > > partial into the login popup form that would contain a hidden field of > > that id of the user that is being viewed. Then, in my authenticate > > action, I would check if there was a value in this field and if so, > > route to the users profiles whose id was in the hidden field and if > > there is no value, then just route to their profile. Does this work? > > Or is there a better way? > > Don't see why it wouldn't work. > > Fred > > > I also thought about using sessions to store the user id of the user > > who is being viewed, but i would have to clear this session if the > > popup was closed and not submitted, and im just not sure how to do > > that. > > > Thanks for your help. > > > On Mar 18, 3:07 pm, Frederick Cheung <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > On Mar 18, 8:51 pm, Dave L <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Yes, that is exactly what I was looking for. I am having some trouble > > > > calling this custom method within an ajax call though. I am able to > > > > call page.redirect_to user_path(user) but when I try the following: > > > > > respond_to do |format| > > > > format.js do > > > > render :update do |page| > > > > page.redirect_back_or_default(user_path > > > > (logged_in_user)) #redirect_to user_path(logged_in_user) works > > > > end > > > > end > > > > end > > > > > I get an error saying redirect_back_or_default is not defined. I have > > > > defined this within my LoginSystem module and have included this in > > > > the application file so it should be able to find it. Is there > > > > anything special I need to do to use it with RJS? > > > > You'd have to define it on the javascript generator object that gets > > > yielded to you. You're better off doing > > > > if ... > > > page.redirect_to ... > > > else > > > page.redirect_to ... > > > end > > > > > On Mar 16, 11:04 pm, saideep annadatha <[email protected]> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I think you are looking for something like this: > > > > > > By using the filters to check if the user is logged in or not and > > > > > showing > > > > > him the login partial. Now in the controller, if the user is > > > > > successfully > > > > > logged in try calling a method similar to the following: > > > > > > redirect_back_or_default('/') > > > > > > def redirect_back_or_default(default) > > > > > session[:return_to] ? redirect_to_url(session[:return_to]) : > > > > > redirect_to(default) > > > > > session[:return_to] = nil > > > > > end > > > > > > The above is extracted from the restful_authentication plugin. > > > > > There the url is getting stored in the session[:return_to] where the > > > > > user is > > > > > redirected once authenticated. > > > > > > Please correct me if wrong. > > > > > > -- > > > > > Thank You, > > > > > Saideep Annadatha > > > > > > On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 4:37 AM, David <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > I have a situation where I need my ajaxed login popup to route to a > > > > > > different page than the default route. Specifically this situation > > > > > > is > > > > > > if they are trying to message a user and are not signed in, I want > > > > > > to > > > > > > show the login, and then route them to the profile that they were > > > > > > viewing and not make them have to find it again. The way I was > > > > > > thinking about doing it is to use a partial to add a hidden field > > > > > > that > > > > > > would contain the id of the user that is being viewed and use this > > > > > > id > > > > > > to render that profile instead of routing to the logged in users > > > > > > profile. > > > > > > > The thing is that the partial is going to look the same as the > > > > > > regular > > > > > > which is not good DRY policy, but I dont know how else to get the > > > > > > user > > > > > > id for the hidden field into the login popup. Something like: > > > > > > > page.replace_html "login", :partial => 'layouts/ > > > > > > login_for_diff_route', :locals => {:profile_id => @profile_id} > > > > > > > I cant really think of any other way to do it. Looking for any > > > > > > suggestions/advice/insights. Thanks. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
