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Bitwise
Bitwise

Reputation: 8461

Create view form that updates attributes - Rails

I currently have a basic controller and model that creates a Subscriber with the normal attributes(name, email, phone, etc...), but I also have a visit attribute on the Subscriber. So I have a form that's rendered with the "new" action and save the input with the create action. << VERY BASIC >> The new feature I want to implement is create a new form that takes in only a phone_number and when the number is entered it update the visit attribute on the subscriber that that corresponds with that number. right now I'm struggling trying to figure this out with just one controller. I'll show my current controller and hopefully that will help for clarity.

CONTROLLER

class SubscribersController < ApplicationController
  def index
    @subscriber = Subscriber.all
  end

  def new
    @subscriber = Subscriber.new
  end

  def create
    @subscriber = Subscriber.create(subscriber_params)
    if @subscriber.save
      flash[:success] = "Subscriber Has Been successfully Created"
      redirect_to new_subscriber_path(:subscriber)
    else
      render "new"
    end
  end

  def visit
    @subscriber = Subscriber.find_by_phone_number(params[:phone_number])
    if @subscriber
      @subscriber.visit += 1
      @subscriber.save
      redirect_to subscribers_visits_new_path(:subscriber)
    else
      render "new"
    end
  end
end

As you can see in the visit action I'm trying to implement this feature but I'm not sure where to go from here?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 73

Answers (1)

Kumar
Kumar

Reputation: 3126

I suppose your search page has a form where you type the number you want to search for. And the request comes to visit action, where you'll increment the +1 to the visit count and then show the details of the number(subscriber).

def visit
  #Comes request from search action
  @subscriber = Subscriber.find_by_phone_number(params[:phone_number])
  if @subscriber
    @subscriber.visit += 1
    @subscriber.save
    redirect_to subscriber_path(@subscriber)
    #It will show the details
  else
    flash[:alert] = "Didn't find with that number. Search again."
    render :action => :search
  end
end

Update:

Search logic

def search
  #will render search.html.erb by convention
end

Inside search.html.erb

<%= form_tag({controller: "subscribers", action: "visit"}, method: "get") do %>
  <%= text_field_tag :phone_number %>
  <%= submit_tag "Submit" %>
<% end %>

So this will send params to visit action, and after incrementing it will render show method. Hope this helps. Let me know if there is anything.

Upvotes: 1

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