Hi Jose,
Do you want to add "buttons"? Or "a button"?
The former is not allowed re: the W3C HTML spec. Rails shows you how to do the latter when you generate scaffolding for an app. Check out, for example, the new.rhtml view.
hth, Bill
All you really need to do is to use a "railsy" form tag and set a value for the label:
<%= start_form_tag :controller=>'test', :action=>'say_hello' %> <p>Enter your Name ... <label><%= @message %></label> </p> <%= end_form_tag %>
This will render a <form action="/test/say_hello" ...> form tag, which will then get routed to your test_controller, which you create like this:
ruby script/generate controller test
and then you add a method say_hello:
class TestController < ApplicationController def say_hello @message= "Hello " + params[:textName] end end
This assigns a string to the @message instance variable of the controlle,r which then gets rendered in the view inside the label.
I'd also recommend reading a few RoR tutorials to get your head around the MVC pattern as implemented in Rails. Without understanding what MVC means and how it works, you won't get very far with Rails.
Cheers, Max
"initialize" is the name for the constructor in ruby. You should not really need to implement a constructor for what you are doing, and you should definitely not call "initialize" as an action from your view.
When a request comes in, rails will execute the method corresponding to the action name, so to just call say_hi, you can use :action=>'say_hi'.
As you want to have different behaviour depending on which button was pressed, you can use the fact that the browser will send the value of the submit button that was used to submit the form.
Print out the contents of the params array as the first statement in your action (p params) and see if you can find the button in there. From theree, it is easy enough to write an if statement that - based on the existence of a specific button value in the params - sets the message to the correct one.
Give it a try and let me know if you get stuck.
Cheers, Max
