Formatting form post to work with MyClass.new(params[:my_class])

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So,

In my html page I have a simple (non rails generated) html for that posts to the server via an ajax call using prototype's form.serialize. It used to post to an asp.net page, but now I want it to post to my rails controller. This is what I have:

@my_class = MyClass.new(params[:my_class])

I don't want to have to set each property of MyClass one-by-one, I want to do what the above code shows. I want to pass all the necessary values to the MyClass constructor.

How can I translate my html form values to do this?

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For it do do this your form inputs need to be named

name=“mycalss[fieldname]”

Then it will work like you want. If you can’t have everything named like that, you’ll need to do it manually.

HTH

Daniel

3

Ahhh, that you for showing me the scheme. Where is this documented?

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It is documented indirectly here

http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/FormHelper.html

-Daniel