On Nov 9, 3:14 am, dwormuth <[email protected]> wrote:
> With Rails 3, how do I create a "link_to" reference that uses a pre-
> exisiting token value instead of the record id? Is there a way to use
> the URLHelpers to do this, or do I need to use the old style "link_to"
> syntax with action, controller, id etc? The documentation doesn't seem
> to provide any pointers that don't implicitly use :id.

Two ways that I can think of. You can either override the 2 param
method, or if you create a route that looks like /foos/:token then the
corresponding help will expect you to pass a :token option to it.

Fred
>
> I have a medical database where I'm trying to provide non-trivial
> references to patient information. I calculate and store a hashed
> token (:token) in the patient's record. I want to
> find_by_token(params[:id]), but I need to tell Rails how to create the
> reference using the :token instead of the :id in the view.
>
> Thanks,
> Dave

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