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kdweber89
kdweber89

Reputation: 2174

passing data from a model to a view on rails

I have information listed in a model, and i'm having trouble listing that information on a view that i have.

The model is as so

  SOURCES = {
"facebook" => "facebook",
"twitter" => "twitter",
"google-plus" => "google-plus",
"linkedin" => "linkedin",
"instagram" => "instagram",
"youtube" => "youtube",
"blog" => "rss",
"pinterest" => "pinterest"
}.freeze

def icon_name
  SOURCES[source]
end

On my view I had 

 = f.input :source, collection: ["twitter", "facebook", "google-plus", "linkedin", "instagram", "youtube", "rss", "pinterest"], prompt: "Select social property"

But i'm trying to just pull from either the sources or the icon name from the model. (in attempts to DRY up the code and such) (the models name is social_link.rb )

I've tried 

= f.input :source, collection: [@social_link.icon_name], prompt: "Select social property"

But...i'm not able to get anywhere with this. Am I missing something? Do I need to use my controller? (i'm not at the moment)

Thanks much!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 24

Answers (1)

zwippie
zwippie

Reputation: 15515

To use the values of the SOURCES constant of your model:

= f.input :source, collection: SocialLink::SOURCES.values, prompt: "Select social property"

And don't forget to add some validation to your model!

Edit: not sure how you want to use icon_name here.

Upvotes: 1

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