Hi I want to assign continents to my products with a drop down box.
I managed to get everyting runing but now i have a probably quite easy
to solve problem.
I don't get the update running.
What want to do is basically:
SELECT * FROM "continents" WHERE ("continents"."id" = "continent_id")
LIMIT 1
But I don't find the right syntax.
At the moamnt it looks like this:
SELECT * FROM "continents" WHERE (id = '--- :continend_id') LIMIT 1
The parameters of my update are looking like this:
Parameters: {"commit"=>"Update", "action"=>"update", "_method"=>"put",
"authenticity_token"=>"***", "product"=>{"image_url"=>"w.jpg",
"expirience_points"=>"0", "price"=>"1", "title"=>"w",
"description"=>"w", "continent_id"=>"7"}, "id"=>"11",
"controller"=>"products"}
This is the code of may update methode:
def update
@product = Product.find(params[:id])
@product.continent = Continent.find(:first, :conditions => [ "id =
?",:continend_id ])
if @product.update_attributes(params[:product])
flash[:notice] = 'Product was successfully updated.'
redirect_to(@product)
else
render :action => "edit"
end
end
The parameters of my update are looking like this:
Parameters: {"commit"=>"Update", "action"=>"update", "_method"=>"put",
"authenticity_token"=>"***", "product"=>{"image_url"=>"w.jpg",
"expirience_points"=>"0", "price"=>"1", "title"=>"w",
"description"=>"w", "continent_id"=>"7"}, "id"=>"11",
"controller"=>"products"}
This is the code of may update methode:
def update
@product = Product.find(params[:id])
@product.continent = Continent.find(:first, :conditions => [ "id =
?",:continend_id ])
You haven't posted what you're getting as a result, but one problem is
that you don't have a variable named continend_id in your code. You
have a params element named continent_id. Change the Continent.find
clause to use :params[:continent_id]. A couple of other tips.
I always use .to_i on finds where I'm using a param since they're
strings and find takes an integer. It helps to remind me that params
are strings.
Your Continent.find could be shortened to
Continent.find(params[:continent_id].to_i)
I tried already:
:params[:continent_id] //Error: Couldn't find Continent with ID=0
the problem is that :continent_id is the foreign key in products and i'm
looking for the :id in continents which is the same then :continent_id
I also tried to use:
-:params[:continent_id].to_i //which comes out the same like
:params[:continent_id]
-:continent_id.to_i //Error: Couldn't find Continent with ID=103233
-:first, :conditions => [ "id = ?",:continend_id.to_i ]) //the same then
above except that it don't brings the error because it just doesn't find
ID=103233 and returns nil
The problem with :continent_id.to_i is that it is not casting the number
value which should put in the case above 7 out.
- @product.continent = Continent.find(:first, :conditions => [ "id =
?",:continend_id ]) //returns nil the SQL looks like this SELECT * FROM
"continents" WHERE (id = '--- :continend_id') LIMIT 1
You are right there was a typo but didn't change anything.
to make sure I tried :id.to_i witch brings 3049 instead of 1
-:first, :conditions => [ "id = ?",:continend_id.to_i ]) //the same then
You're trying to pass a symbol instead of a variable into your query
string, so of course it won't work. What you want is
["id = ?", continent_id.to_i] (without the colon).
But you should never need to do it this way. For a simple equality
check, use the hash syntax:
{:id => continent_id.to_i}
or consider find or find_by_id .
You're trying to pass a symbol instead of a variable into your query
string, so of course it won't work. What you want is
["id = ?", continent_id.to_i] (without the colon).
But you should never need to do it this way. For a simple equality
check, use the hash syntax:
{:id => continent_id.to_i}
or consider find or find_by_id .
Ok I do understand now the Problem with the Symbols.
But with @product.continent = Continent.find({:id => continent_id.to_i})
I get
undefined local variable or method `continent_id'
waht I do understand because I'm in def update and the parameters witch
are passed are:
