Clearing form fields for a popup

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I am using prototype to create modal popups for my login and register pages, but the fields are populating with the data from certain variables. For example, I have a show page that finds a user like so:

@user = User.find(params[:id])

and my form uses: <% form_for :user, :url => users_path do |f| -%>

so it is populating the form with the data from @user. Should I rename the @user variable, or is there a way to avoid the populating of the form?

Thanks for any help.

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Hi David,

David wrote:

I am using prototype to create modal popups for my login and register pages, but the fields are populating with the data from certain variables. For example, I have a show page that finds a user like so:

@user = User.find(params[:id])

and my form uses: <% form_for :user, :url => users_path do |f| -%>

so it is populating the form with the data from @user. Should I rename the @user variable, or is there a way to avoid the populating of the form?

You should be doing the find in the controller and calling the new method to return a new, empty object or the edit method to return an existing object.

HTH, Bill