Passing variables to a form from the controller

[ricklach]

In the controller I have an edit and delete (destroy) method. When I have carried out the action I want to pass a set of variables to a basic "success" view that describes what the success was (ie. Success - you have "deleted a record" or Success - you have "saved the edited record") with the things in quotes being the strings (plus others) that I want to pass. Here is the basic "destroy" method

def destroy
    EdaOfficer.find(params[:id]).destroy
    #(variavles to be passed to success form)
    redirect_to :action => 'success'
  end

Can someone give me a hint how to do this.

[xmitchx]

Usually for messages such as those, you should generate the message in the destroy method and pass it on using flash variables.

http://api.rubyonrails.com/classes/A...ler/Flash.html

[Arto]

Mitch's comment describes the normal way to do this, but assuming you have other requirements, it's still pretty simple:

def destroy
  EdaOfficer.find(params[:id]).destroy
  redirect_to :action => 'success', :message => 'the record was deleted'
end

...so, just pass parameters as normal, and in the 'success' action, grab them from the params hashtable, e.g. params[:message].

[Luke Redpath]

The only problem with that is that the message will be passed in the query string which is a bit smelly - flash is really the best way of doing this.

[ricklach]

Thanks for the response. It worked just as I wanted and filled the bill. I did encounter one piece of unexpected behaviour. The "success.rhtml" file is a popup and lets the user know the action has been successful. It has a close popup button with the following code

<%= button_to_function 'Close Popup', onclick="window.opener.location.reload(true); window.close()" %>

. When I create a new record and click "close popup" it closes the popup and refreshes the parent window. When I delete a record it only closes the popup - it does not refresh the parent. Same code different behaviour - curious???