Create multiple objects on a button click in Rails - ruby-on-rails

Question

I have template_sections and sections and on a button click in my view I want
a) get all template_sections with a specific template_id, send them to the sections_controller
or
b) the section_controller method transform should get the template_sections there
and
iterate over them and create a new section object for each one of them, where I would set is_template = 0 and template_id = nil and save them.
View:
<div class="col-2 deploy-template">
<%= button_to 'Deploy Template', transform_sections_path, method: :post, *{call controller's method or send objects from here to transform method}*, remote: true, type: 'button', class: "btn btn-secondary btn-sm ml-0 mr-4" %>
</div>
Controller:
def new
#section = Section.new
if params[:is_template]
date = (Time.at(params['day'].to_i*86400-1)).strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
#section.starts_at_datetime = (date + ' ' + params['time']).in_time_zone rescue nil
else
#section.starts_at_datetime = (params['date'] + ' ' + params['time']).in_time_zone rescue nil
end
respond_to do |format|
format.js
end
end
def create
#section = Section.new(section_params)
#section.account_id = session_account_id
#section.is_template = true if params[:section][:is_template] == 'true'
#section.template_id = params[:section][:template_id]
respond_to do |format|
if #section.save
format.js
flash.now[:success] = "saved successfuly"
create_event #section, "create", "Create"
else
flash.now[:danger] = "#{#section.errors.full_messages}"
format.js { render 'layouts/notifications' }
end
end
end
def transform
template_sections.each do |template_section|
#save each template_section with is_template = 0 and template_id = nil
end

Answer 1

What you can do is pass your template sections to your controller through the params hash like so:
<%= button_to 'Deploy Template', method: :post, transform_sections_path(template_sections: [YOUR ARRAY VARIABLE HERE]), remote: true, type: 'button', class: "btn btn-secondary btn-sm ml-0 mr-4" %>
Your template sections should then be available through params[:template_sections] inside of your controller for you to do whatever you feel like doing, (I am assuming post: template_sections_path points to the transform action in your controller).
def transform
template_sections = params[:template_sections]
template_sections.each do |template_section|
#save each template_section with is_template = 0 and template_id = nil
end
I don't know what your TemplateSection model looks like so I will refrain from writing controller code that won't work, but hopefully once you have the data in your controller you will be able to work through it, and if not I am happy to help with a little bit more information.
As an additional note, "method: :post", and "type: button" seem redundant when using a button_to tag as those are the defaults, you can remove them unless you have a specific reason for having them.