Counting the page views

rubyonrails-talk
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Is this model just for counting?

You need to find the current record, then save your changes to get the database to update.

You should perform this in a transaction to keep one view from stomping on another. See ActiveRecord::Base::transaction class method.

Michael

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There's a cleaner way: ActiveRecord::Base#increment! increases the passed attribute by 1 and saves the record.

def showadvert   @advert = Advert.find(params[:id])   @advert.increase!("views") end

then you can just show it in your views as you suggested:

<%= @advert.views %>