Cisco Ri wrote:
>>
>> Completely bypassing the form would be
>> nice.
>>
Did you try this:
> Here's something that worked for me:
>
> 1) Create a new controller and action that the user will enter as the
> url:
>
> $ ruby script/generate controller direct entry
>
> That creates a controller called DirectController with one action(=a
> method) called entry. Open up app/controllers/direct_controller.rb and
> you will see this:
>
> class DirectController < ApplicationController
> def entry
> end
>
> end
>
>
> The name/value pairs in the url after the ? will be inserted into a
> "params" hash, which you can access. With the information in params,
> you can create a new Link object like this:
>
> Link.create("url" => params[:url])
>
> (that assumes the links table has only one field: url)
>
> Apparently when you assign a Link object to the variable @link, rails
> will create a record in the database corresponding to the values in the
> Link object. If you look at the create method in the file
> LinksController.rb, that is what the create method does. This is what I
> came up with:
>
> @link = Link.create("url" => params[:url])
>
> Add that line to the entry method:
>
> class DirectController < ApplicationController
> def entry
> @link = Link.create("url" => params[:url])
> end
> end
>
> Then when you enter the url:
>
> http://localhost:3000/direct/entry?url=www.someurl.com
>
> that will access the DirectController and call its entry method. The
> entry method then creates a new Link object. Then rails enters a record
> in the links table corresponding to the information in the Link object.
--------
>>I'm not sure that I follow you.
If you create a Link object, then call .save on it, the information in
the Link object will be automatically inserted in the links table.
There are two ways to create and save a Link object:
1)
mylink = Link.new
mylink.url = "some url"
mylink.save
You create the Link object, then you set the field names--as found in
the links table--e.g. 'url', to the desired values.
2) Link.create(info)
where info is a hash containing the information, e.g.:
{"field1" => val1, "field2" => val2}
In your case, I'm assuming your links table has one field named url, so
you could create a new record in the table by writing:
Link.create("info" => "some url")
An action is called with a url. The part after the ? in the url gets
entered into the rail's params hash, which you can access inside the
action. For instance, if you enter the following url in your browser's
address bar:
http://localhost:3000/direct/entry?url=www.someurl.com
that will call the entry method in the DirectController. Inside the
entry method, params[:url] will be equal to "www.someurl.com". How
would you enter that url in the table? You can that url in the links
table by writing the following inside the entry method:
Link.create("info" => params[:url])
or equivalently:
mylink = Link.new
mylink.url = params[:url]
mylink.save
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