How do I pass a variable to a query in a url (noob question)

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I am a noobie to rails and have just started building my own rails project. I successfully built a simple crud admin and added all the records into a mysql database ready to build a public product catalouge.

I have displayed a browse section of the application with a links of categories from the database and want have a page which displays a list of products from the appropriate category is selected.

Can someone point me in the right direction? Your help will be much appreciated.

LYN

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link_to 'Some Category', :controller => 'categories', :action => 'show', :id => category

There are several ways to do links now adays, especially with the introduction of RESTful routing... you should have a look at routing and buy the latest Agile Development with Rails book.