On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 8:22 AM, Colin Law <clan...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On 10 March 2010 12:44, Neil Bye <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote: >> Colin Law wrote: >> . >>> >>> Do you mean you have two submits in one form? You had not mentioned >>> that before, or I missed it. >>> >>> Colin >> There are three separate forms on three pages but they all refer to the >> stories_controller.rb . In the controller I a 'create' method for the >> 'new' page >> The 'update' method is for comments submitted on the 'show' page. Now I >> want an 'edit' page with a submit. What method can I use and how does >> the submit on the edit page know how to use it. >> >> Attachments: >> http://www.ruby-forum.com/attachment/4562/stories_controller.rb > > You can specify the action in the form_for statement. > > However, as I suggested earlier I would not use a separate action > anyway. If you look at your code for update and add_comment you will > see there is a lot of similarity. I would combine add_comment into > update and test params[:comment] to see whether to add the comment or > not.
A more conventional approach here might be to treat comments as nested resources, and have a Comments controller. http://railscasts.com/episodes/139-nested-resources And if you substitute Story for Article in Ryan's example app in the railscast, it would appear to pretty much be the OPs problem. -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale WWR: http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickdenatale -- 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 rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
