Rails: change the contents of view when click the different link - ruby-on-rails

Is it possible to change the contents of view when click the different link?
I have two links.
<%= link_to "Add event", xxx_path %>
<%= link_to "Add place", xxx_path %>
I'd like to display <%= f.text_field :detail %> on the view of xxx_path when I click Add event, and not to display it when I click Add place.
It would be appreciated if you could give me advice.

If you need to pass additional information along with a GET request you would use query parameters.
example:
/cities?near=london
/users/1/orders?status=pending
You can pass any hash keys with path/url helpers to generate a path/url with any arbitrary query attached.
cities_path(near: 'london')
user_orders_path(user_id: current_user.to_param, status: 'pending')
However your example makes very little sense as Event and Place most likely are different resources and should have their own routes and controllers.

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rails: link_to to pass list of selected checkboxes into params

I am not sure what the correct approach is for my situation:
I want to create a link_to pushing all checkboxes with value="1" into an array, or individually if array is not possible, but I am at a loss of how to express that?
<% #cards.each do |card| %>
<%= check_box("#{card.name}", card.id, {checked: true}) %><%= "#{card.name}" %>
<% end %>
(Rails 4.2)
After a long time of dead ends, trying to make it a 'clean' solution I ended up with this very dirty approach. But as they say, done is better than perfect:
Create a link_to that would include all the cards, but add one additional params: user_selected_cards = "".
Create a javascript that listens to for checking/unchecking of the checkboxes and reads the id associated with that specific checkbox. Then take that incoming info and add or remove it to the actual url that the link_to generates by finding the user_seletected_cards= portion in the url and add or remove the id depending on if isn't or already is added to the list after the equal sign.

Rails Display Link in Database Using link_to

In Rails, I have a "notifications" class, one field of which is "link". The links contained within this class are formatted like: exchange_path(6), where that is the path to the show action in the exchange controller.
I'm now trying to output this link as such:
<%= link_to "View Exchange", notification.link %>
This line is in a loop which begins as such:
<% #notifications.each do |notification| %>
When I click this link, it takes me to localhost:3000/users/exchange_path(6) instead of localhost:3000/exchanges/6 like I would expect. (The loop generating the faulty link is on localhost:3000/users/2)
this could be scary...
<%= link_to "View Exchange", eval(notification.link) %>
should evaluate and use the path helpers. but you need to be 100% sure that nothing bad gets put in the link field..
You could do this:
<%= link_to("View Exchange", "/#{notification.link.gsub('(', '/').gsub(')', '').gsub('_path', 's')}") %>
or set up a method in your model that formats it for you:
def format_link
link.gsub('(', '/').gsub(')', '').gsub('_path', 's')
end
and just call that in your link_to:
link_to("View Exchanges", notification.format_link)
This will only work if all the links are formatted exactly as the example in the question

How to pass the UI control values as the parameters to the Controller in Rails?

I met a problem of parameter passing in Rails.
I have an object named 'account' and another object named 'locale'. There is a one-to-many relationship between them. One locale can be mapped with multiple accounts.
On accounts/index.html.erb, I have a dropdown which will list all the available locales.
And I have a link below.
In expectation, when I clicks this link, the index method of account controller will be called and the value of selected locale id will be passed. And the index method will retrieve all the accounts belonging to that locale.
What blocks me is I have no idea how to pass that selected value of dropdown to the controller.
I only know the basic way of passing a parameter is:
<%= link_to 'Refresh', {:action => 'index', :fromvar => 'refresh', :selected_locale_id => '1'}.
And from controller, we can get it by:
params[:selected_locale_id]
But it is the case of a fixed value. How to deal with a dynamic UI control value as my case?
Does link_to support some javascript to be embedded?
My rails version is 3.2.13.
Any one has idea on this?
You can either do this as a form, or as javascript in the onclick event of the link. I would recommend a form.
The following should get you started:
<%= form_for :index do |form| %>
<%= form.select :locale_id, Locale.all %>
<%= form.submit %>
<% end %>
Be sure to add a post route to the index action to allow the form to submit.

Ruby on Rails - Passing values to a link_to

I'm a RoR beginner and am using Rails 3.2.3.
I have a search form on my page and it performs a get request and filters the results correctly.
I want to add the possibility of also searching Products by dates.
I inserted a date_select and am able select the date and when the page refreshes after the search, the chosen dates are still there on the date_select, as I am able to get them through params.
However, my issue is that when the page renders the products, they have a link_to to their show action.
My goal is to also pass alongside the url the dates that were selected to perform the search on that link_to.
For ex, if the user selects a date of 20-06-2012 to 25-06-2012 it only shows products inserted on that time frame (and all those params are on the url)
But the link to show action of each displayed product is only:
link_to <%= link_to product.name, product%>
which renders
http://localhost:3000/products/24 (por example)
what I want to render/show is something like:
http://localhost:3000/products/24?from=20-06-2012&to=25-06-2012
The selected dates to perform the search are not stored in the database at this moment, but I will need to get them from the URL on a latter page, therefore, both dates will need to be preserved through 2 different pages before the users fills a form and then those dates are inserted in the DB.
Any tips on this? I've searched but all I found was on how to pass variables that exist in the model and I do not want to use cookies nor session variables.
Thanks in advance,
Regards
If you want to pass arbitrary parameters to the following call
<%= link_to product.name, product %>
you need to invoke the path method explicitly instead of using the implicit version. The line above is equivalent to
<%= link_to product.name, product_path(product) %>
Then you can pass parameters
<%= link_to product.name, product_path(product, :from => 'whatever', :to => 'whatever') %>
Can you try like this
link_to <%= link_to product.name, product, :param_you_want => "value you want" %>
Now you can set value in "param_you_want" as you wish.
But in my case set value in it "value you want"
Hope you can get idea

Rails Dependent Form - Selecting a Specific Item from a Model

I'm new to Rails so be gentle. I've got a model, 'Event', with the the following information: 'sport', 'home_team', 'away_team', and 'time' in datetime.
Now I want to enable the user to 'follow' a specific event and am trying to find the best way to do so. Ideally, I'd like a form with dependent drop down lists. For example, the user first picks a 'day', then a 'sport', then selects from a relevant list of 'events' of that 'day' and 'sport'. This association is then stored in a rich join table called 'following'.
I've seen tutorials on complex forms that involve multiple models, but what about when everything is from the same model? How do build a form to grab a handful of relevant records. I only have a few distinct values for 'sport', so I wasn't sure it made sense to give it its own model. And can I easily get events on a certain date from a 'datetime' value?
There a lot of ways to go about this, here is one option:
Since you want to see multiple events, you'd probably start off focused on the index action. Start off by creating and index action, but add some hooks to filter it, i.e.
def index
if params[:sport]
#events = Event.where("sport = ?",params[:sport])
else
#events = Event.all()
end
end
Now, if you've defined your routes like this:
resources :events
You'll have a a route /events that will accept a get request and route you to the index action.
But if you want a form where you can select things, a form will by default POST, but you could create a form that GETs to '/events'
i.e. in app/views/events/index.html.erb
<%= form_tag '/events', :method=>:get %>
Then, you want to create your form elements that will send the params.
i.e.
<%= select_tag 'sport', '<option>baseball</option><option>football</option>' %>
Put in a submit button
<%= submit_tag 'See Events'
Then 'end' your form with
<% end %>
Now when you click on the 'See Events' button, you will send a get request to the route '/events', and the 'sport' parameter will show up in the index action, filtering the events.
To keep things simple and all in the index view, after your form you'd list all the events.
<% #events.each do |e| %>
Sport: <%= e.sport %><br/>
Home Team: <%= e.home_team %><br/>
Away Team: <%= e.away_team %><br/>
Time: <%= e.time.strftime('%H %M') %><br/>
<% end %>

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