On Apr 10, 8:11 pm, RailsNewbie <[email protected]> wrote: > I am new to Rails and have a simple problem where I am trying to pass > a parameter from a view to another controller outside the scope...The > model is about a Customer having multiple Prescriptions. The GET > request is : /prescription/list_per_customer/2 > There's really not any difference between a link that will be routed to the same controller and one that won't.
> This is from the view of Customers : > > <%= link_to "Customers Prescription", :action => > "list_per_customer", :controller => "prescription", :id => @customer.id > %> This is fine as long as their is a route backing this (the default one will do if it exists) > > This is from the other controller, PrescriptionController : > > def index > @referred_customer=params[:id] > end > def list_per_customer > @cust_prescriptions = > Prescription.find_all_by_customer_id(@referred_customer) > redirect_to :action => 'list_per_customer' > end You haven't said what isn't working, but at the very least you need to assign params[:id] to @referred_customer (although personally I find that a bit misleading - it makes it sound like @referred_customer is a customer object rather than just an id) and I doubt you want to redirect - presumably you have a list_by_customer template that knows how to display the prescriptions. If you're new I'd also try using more of the rails conventions (eg make prescriptions a nested resource (see the routing guide on guides.rubyonrails.org for more info) Fred > > How can this be done with or without sessions ? Will appreciate very > much if the complete code is provided for these two parts of the code > in Customer->view.rhtml and Prescription->list_per_customer...thx -- 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.
