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Reputation: 517

Process data with one controller with no model and no database

I'm working on a little test and want to see if my thinking is correct.

I have a form that is going to take in a string of data. When its submitted, it going to do some formatting and then display the formatted data.

I originally thought to have the form in the index action, post the data to create then redirect back to index with the formatted data. I don't like this because the formatted data is appended url with a query string (too ugly)

Is it reasonable have the form post to the index action and format the data in a helper method and display it. My index method would look something like this:

def index
  if params
    # Do Stuff
  end
end

Upvotes: 0

Views: 33

Answers (1)

Daniel Westendorf
Daniel Westendorf

Reputation: 3465

Perhaps you might achieve what you're looking for by using a table-less model (no DB connection required) and the built in ActiveRecord niceties to display this for you.

class Person
  include ActiveModel::Model
  attr_accessor :name, :email
  ...
end

Then display in your index action, and use the form to send a POST to create, and then simply display a template which shows the formatted data.

# controller
def index
  @person = Person.new
end

def create
  @person = Person.new(person_params)
  render :formatted # formatted.html.erb
end

# index.html.erb
<%= form_for @person %>
  ...
<% end %>

Upvotes: 1

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