Increment Count and display

rubyonrails-talk
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hello,

I have a column hit in my responses table, and I need to create a button beside every response. And when the button is clicked, the counter value should be incremented and displayed on the same page.

I created a method in mycontroller,

def update_hit    @response.update_attribute :hit, params[:count] + 1 end

and in the view <%= button_to "Click" , response, :action => update_hit %>

I am not sure if I am doing it the right way. What can I do about this?

And how can i display it in the same page?

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I would be careful using the params[:count] +1 setup... If someone managed tio submit that param with their post then the count is hosed...

I would use link_to_remote and use a rjs template that updates the count and the action just updates the database with +1

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When I click on the button it says No action defined. The click and the method is not linking properly. Is there something wrong in the syntax?