after doing a bunch of reading I have finally sat down to create a simple app to dirve home a lor of the concepts to which have been read. So I figured a simple blog app is the best way to do it. The bad thing is that I am already hung up when creating replies to a blog posting.
I can't figure out how to insert the post_id value into the reply table. When creating a reply the user is directed to a page via a url simular to the following http://localhost:3000/main/reply/4, with the value 4 being the post_id that is being replied to.
In the controller I have:
class MainController < ApplicationController
def index #display a list of the posts @posts = Post.find(:all, :order => "id desc") end
def reply #display the post that is being replied to @post = Post.find(params[:id]) @reply = Reply.new end
def post_reply @reply = Reply.find(params[:id]) redirect_to :index end
end
