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GeekFitness
GeekFitness

Reputation: 149

Passed parameters not being read in Rails

I posted this question earlier: Passing parameters on button click in Rails

And the answer works very well. However, I the passed parameters aren't able to be called in erb, even the @event_option_id that is being passed from the book_now method.

It is showing in my server logs as Parameters: {"event"=>"4", "event_option_id"=>"5"} but when I try to use <%= @event_option_id %> it comes back blank, and when I just tested it as to_i, it showed 0 instead of 5.

My EventsController has this method:

def book_now
  @event_option_id = params[:event_option_id]
end

And my link is passing the parameters like this: 

<%= link_to "Book This Event Now!", book_now_path(:event => @event.id, :event_option_id => e.id), :id => "book-now-button", :class => "button" %>

I am trying to pass this @event_option_id so that I can access the corresponding values from my db.

Each EventOption has a price, description, and name that is unique to it, and when I try to access those in multiple ways, I get (NoMethodError: undefined method 'price' for nil:NilClass), for instance.

Any idea what's going on?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 660

Answers (1)

Prakash Murthy
Prakash Murthy

Reputation: 13077

With @event_option_id = params[:event_option_id] you are just assigning the event_option_id param value to an instance variable.

What you should be doing is finding the corresponding EventOption object with the event_option_id as follows:

@event_option = EventOption.find(params[:event_option_id])

With that piece of code in the controller method, <%= @event_option.price %> in the view will show the price of that EventOption object.

Upvotes: 1

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