Concatenate 2 form fields together.

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I am a newbie at RoR so thank you for your patients.

I have a form with the following fields: 1. first_name 2. last_name

I want to take them and make them into one variable "name" and submit that to my table field named "name". Can anyone help?

Thank you,

Sean McGilvray

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Haii For this case… a lot of way…

  1. make name in model → this is the best way
  2. make name in controller → this is good way way no 1 in model

attr_accessor :first_name attr_accessor :last_name def before_save self.name = @first_name + " " + @last_name end in controller def save user = User.new() user.first_name = params[:first_name] user.last_name = params[:last_name] user.save end way no 2 For example model user, controller costumer in controller

def save user = User.new user.name = params[:first_name] + " " + params[:last_name] user.save end

I hope it will help you… Thank you

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This is exactly what I was looking for.

Thank you,

Sean McGilvray & Sarena Byers Director Identity Theft Specialist Pre-Paid Legal Service’s, Inc. NYSE:PPD Phone: 760-486-1019 smcgilvray@prepaidlegal.com http://www.transferhome.net