Preview Message Before Saving?

I just did this myself so let me try:

there are many ways to do preview. The way I'm doing it, I'm showing the preview in all its glory and show the filled in form on the same page so user can edit it some more or submit it.

main thing to realize is you can use the same new and edit view you are using now and call the same actions. I'll tackle previewing the edit of an existing post first.

First add a preview button to the form e.g.,

<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Post it!" /> <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Preview" />

In my PostsController's update method (my message model is Post, obviously)

# find @post as usual def update @post = Post.find(params[:id])

if params[:submit] == 'Preview' @post.attributes = params[:post] preview( 'edit') return end

## do usual thing for rest of it

I second that, I definately learned something today! thank you rubynuby!