use @car = Car.create( :name => params[:car]) , or @car = Car.find_or_create_by_name(params[:car]) if you don't want duplicate items.
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 3:34 AM, charlene cassar <[email protected]>wrote: > I didn't add the routing properly :S > > > Now that i'm in my car controller, I want to call a view in the user views. > How do i go from the controller to the view??? > > > Thanks > > 2009/11/30 [email protected] <[email protected]> > > cell.name ? cell is the object, so .to_s method is going to print out >> the object summary >> >> On Nov 29, 10:26 pm, Me <[email protected]> wrote: >> > What is not working? >> > >> > On Nov 29, 3:40 pm, Char <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > >> > >> > > Hello >> > >> > > I have the following situation >> > > This is my controller: >> > >> > > def addcar @car = Car.new(params[:car]) render :action >> > > => "list" endthis is my view: <%(@allcars).each do |cell|%> >> > >> > > <%= link_to cell.to_s, :controller => "car", :action => "addcar", :car >> > > => cell.to_s %> >> > >> > > <%end %> >> > >> > > In the link_to statement I want to pass cell.to_s to the controller. >> > > how can i do that please? THe cell.to_s is just a string but I want it >> > > to be the name of the car object (car.Name) >> > >> > > In other words I want to pass "Honda" to the controller so that I can >> > > save this to the cars table >> > > Id Name >> > > (Autogenerated) Honda >> > > (Autogenerated) Mercedes >> > >> > > etc >> >> -- >> >> 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]<rubyonrails-talk%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. >> >> >> > -- > 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]<rubyonrails-talk%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > -- Liu Lantao College of Information Science and Technology, Beijing Normal University EMAIL: liulantao ( at ) gmail ( dot ) com ; WEBSITE: http://www.liulantao.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.
