So you are going to have one text field that gathers membercode? And associated with the membercode are going to be a bunch of bottons, each that will provide some controller action on membercode. Will the action always be def create? You have your recover_letter_rpts_path(:membercode). I am assuming that this path as defined in your router.rb and leads to controller action 'create'. Run rake routes and show us the result, or copy/paste your route.rb here. Don't understand: "And there is no form to contain these fields." Plural fields. These fields?: <%= label_tag :"Enter member code" %> <%= text_field_tag :membercode%> <%= button_to "Death/Retired Recovery Letter Printing", recovery_letter_rpts_path(membercode: membercode) %> Are you saying that this code is not contained in a form...? Otherwise, show us the form tag. Is membercode being returned in your params? Have you been able to capture that param in your controller? Pending your answers to the above, a possible solution is this... If all buttons lead to def create... Go to your router and modify recover_letter_rpts_path(:membercode). Add a new parameter, let's call it :process. Then for the above button, you could rewrite it as.. <%= button_to "Death/Retired Recovery Letter Printing", recovery_letter_rpts_path(membercode: membercode, process: 'verify_existence') %> I'm not sure about the best syntax for adding a second parameter In your controller def create membercode = params[:membercode] ## should verify existence (blank?) of params[:membercode] membercode_process = params[:process] ## should verify existence (blank?) of params[:process] if membercode_process == 'verify_existence' member_exist = Member.find_by_member_code(membercode) ## pretty sure that 'exist' is a deprecated method in Rails 2. I'd use something like member_exist respond_to do |format| if member_exist.blank?? ## blank? is more thorough, it tests for object.nil? || object.empty? ## puts is usually done for debugging purposes, do you want to provide this information to your user? If so, you may want to put this content into a partial -- depending on how elaborate your messages become -- which will be rendered in recoveries_path. ### Or you could store it in flash, which will be presented in recoveries_path puts "******************************************" puts "This is the member code #{membercode}" # done puts "******************************************" redirect_to(recoveries_path) else puts "This is the NO member code #{membercode}" ## Same as above redirect_to(recoveries_path) end elsif membercode_process == 'some_other_process' etc..... end end end If all buttons don't lead to def create... then create a new route path for each.... But I think that folks here will have better suggestions in that case.
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