Hi Luke, Thanks very much for the reply. You pointed me in exactly the right direction to solve my problem!!
> Another approach might be to pass this value from the new action to the > create action through the form using a hidden field. I tried this already. This had the disadvantage that the hidden field was never up-to-date as it was set during validation and thus always contained the value of the previous submission. > blah = Blah.new(params[:blah]) > > #now you have a instance of Blah. > > if blah.save > #now you have access to the non represented field > blah.non_represented_field > end This on the other hand, sorted me right out. I changed it slightly to: applicant = Applicant.new(params[:applicant]) if applicant.valid? #now I have access to the field I need do_stuff_with_non_represented_field applicant.save end What I was actually using this field for was to create a hash of all submitted values, compare it to the hash of the previous record and thus prevent double data submission. And it works wonderfully. Thanks very much for your help. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- 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.
