New to ruby (easy question i think)

[JackInDaBox]

Hello I am new at ruby on rails and have what i hope is a simple question. Say I have a DB with animal names and an id. I am using active scaffold. once I click on the edit to edit any animal name how can i then access that that name in the view? I want to be able to output it in the textbox name: as well as just display it below the textbox that active scaffold creates.

Thanks for the help

[asrinivas1234]

Hello I am new at ruby on rails and have what i hope is a simple question. Say I have a DB with animal names and an id. I am using active scaffold. once I click on the edit to edit any animal name how can i then access that that name in the view? I want to be able to output it in the textbox name: as well as just display it below the textbox that active scaffold creates.

Thanks for the help

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u have to pass the id for the particular selected animal..

how can u do it?

in first page, u r displaying the animals right?
how do u display animals?
u r fetching from database in controller and assigning that object and inside the .rhtml page, u r catching that object and iterating that object and displaying the animals.
Ex:
in controller-->
@animals = Animal.find :all

inside view,
<%for animal in @animals%>
<% form_tag :action => 'edit', :id => animal.id do %>


<%end%>
<%= submit_tag 'edit' %>

have u seen the form statement,
:id => animal.id.

then, inside ur controllers edit method,
def edit
@animal = Animal.find(params[:id])
end

then,
inside ur 2nd rhtml page,
u can use @animal and print the corresponding data...

if u have doubt,
u can mail me, --> [e-mail]