Simple things like duplicating a record in rails?

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Maybe I am totally waisted after a long nights work with my admin interface filters but how the heck can I duplicate records?

Scenario: My client will enter hundreds maybe thousands of products into their new nice e-commerce system backoffice forms. They call me and say, Hey! Can we press a "DUPLICATE" button would safe us hours and hours of time when adding products.

Solution? I can't find any posts about this issues on the lists archives or anywhere else for that matter. I just want to have in my scaffolds next to show, edit, destroy a new link with the label "Duplicate and Edit" and if you press this link it should take the data on the selected product, copy it to a new product and go to the edit screen of that new product.

Any ideas on how to accomplish this?

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Andreas Kviby wrote:

Maybe I am totally waisted after a long nights work with my admin interface filters but how the heck can I duplicate records?

Scenario: My client will enter hundreds maybe thousands of products into their new nice e-commerce system backoffice forms. They call me and say, Hey! Can we press a "DUPLICATE" button would safe us hours and hours of time when adding products.

Solution? I can't find any posts about this issues on the lists archives or anywhere else for that matter. I just want to have in my scaffolds next to show, edit, destroy a new link with the label "Duplicate and Edit" and if you press this link it should take the data on the selected product, copy it to a new product and go to the edit screen of that new product.

Any ideas on how to accomplish this?

How about object.clone?

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#controller def duplicate_and_edit @product = Product.find(params[:id] @product.id = nil end

if your form in new.rhtml is populated with form_for @product ...... , you could just render this action and rails will fill in the values into the form and thus reuse this view instead a creating a duplicate form for this action.

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Hi Thanks a lot, it worked like a charm. Thanks to you guys my client will be very happy today. /Andreas

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