How to create a record in another table ?

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Hi

In my Delphi GUI apps, it is common functionality a) to select a row b)then 'append to' ie create a row to another table with similar table structure

I guess the analogy would be to copy a record to another table by clicking an action link

How can we do it wth ActiveScaffold ?

I think the solution is to copy the record as follows :-

def self.add_transfer_action     # The copy action     define_method(:copy) do       new     end

    # Override the do_new to implement copy behavior     define_method(:do_new) do       super       if params["action"] == "transfer"         model = active_scaffold_config.model         copied_record = model.find(params[:id])

       # how do I specify the target controller ?         model.columns.each do |column|           @record.send("#{column.name}=",             copied_record.send("#{column.name}")) unless column.name             model.primary_key         end

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I'm not sure how it will be different for ActiveScaffold as I don't use it, but to do the actions you described in RoR, you can use the attributes property:

Assuming that you already have the source row called src, you can do

target_row = TargetTable.new(src.attributes)