On 10 October 2012 08:47, paul h <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > rails 3.2.8 > > I must be missing something basic (and it's been driving me mad) because I > am trying to send one additional data attribute to my controller from a > link, but I can't seem to get it into the params received by the controller. > > I have looked around and found answers, but none seem to affect my links. > > I've set up a dummy app with a home page and a single link to a contacts > page - here is the code: > > routes.rb > > root :to => 'home#index', :as => 'home' > resource 'contacts' > > Haml Home Page View > > # I want to be able to display 'bar' on the contacts page > = link_to "Contacts", contacts_path, :data => {:foo => 'bar'} > > The generated html link: > > <a href="/contacts" data-foo="bar">contacts</a> > > But I don't receive the foo attribute in the params object in the show > action of ContactsController. > > If I add {:method => :post} to link_to, then it routes to the create action > of the ContactsController but again, foo is missing. > > = link_to "Contacts", contacts_path, {:method => :post, :data => {:foo => > 'bar'}} > > generates: > > <a href="/contacts" data-foo="bar" data-method="post" > rel="nofollow">contacts</a>
What do you see in development.log when you click the link. It should show you the parameters being passed. Also if you do params.inspect what do you see? You can put that in a view or use a debugger. Colin -- 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 https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
