On Wednesday, 10 October 2012 06:25:25 UTC-7, paul h wrote: > > Hi Norbert, > > Thanks for the reply, but can you elaborate a little? > > On Wednesday, October 10, 2012 12:01:54 PM UTC+1, Norbert Melzer wrote: >> >> >> Am 10.10.2012 09:47 schrieb "paul h" <[email protected]>: >> >> > # I want to be able to display 'bar' on the contacts page >> > = link_to "Contacts", contacts_path, :data => {:foo => 'bar'} >> >> Should be params=>.... I here if I recall correctly. >> > > Doesn't appear to be, replacing :data with :params changes the HTML link > as follows: > data-foo='bar' becomes params="{:foo=>"bar"}" > > Changing :data to params just mashes up the html link. > > AFAIK the generated HTML link is correct data-foo='bar', shouldn't this be > accessible in the controller as part of the params hash? > > If I inspect the params hash, all that is there is the usual key/value > pairs: controller, action, (when applicable => id, method, > authenticity_token). > > How can I send an additional data attribute to the controller? Do I have > problem with my routes? > > Data-attributes are intended for code *on* the page (JS, etc) to use - they don't get sent to the server unless you're doing something fancy with JS to send them. You'll want to pass additional parameters to the URL helper (contacts_path in your example) to get them in the controller.
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