Saving data in ruby on Rails without resources

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Its bit difficult for me to explain what I want, but still I will try my best.

I created a form in Rails where user can fill certain fields. Now once these fields are filled, I know that I can use resources in Router and define a create method in Controller that will save the data to database. However what I want is to pass data saved in the form to my controller. Then create a custom method in controller that will be just like traditional Create method, but instead of passing parameters using Resource method, I want to pass them as parameter. Is it even possible in Rails:

This is my current View to create form:

<h1> Please add a new product</h1>
<%= form_for @product do |p| %>
  <p>
    <%= p.label 'Product Name' %><br/>
    <%= p.text_field :product_name %><br/>
  </p>
  <p>
    <%= p.label 'Description' %><br/>
    <%= p.text_area :description %><br/>
  </p>
  <p>
    <%= p.label 'Price' %><br/>
    <%= p.text_field :price %><br/>
  </p>
  <p>
    <%= p.label 'Rating' %><br/>
    <%= p.text_field :rating %><br/>
  </p>

<% end %>

So may be I am using In Built form in Ruby, but I just want to pass parameters from View to Controller's method.

Thanks for help !!!

Read guides.rubyonrails.org/routing.html. You can always define custom routes like post '/latest_products' => 'products#latest_create' — kiddorails
– kiddorails, Commented Oct 7, 2017 at 4:57

manojchowdary27 · Accepted Answer · 2017-10-07 06:02:22Z

1

I will help you in solving your problem. Follow these steps:

Create your route in routes.rb:

get "/create_product" => 'products#create_product', as: :create_product

or if you want to pass params through post method:

post "/create_product" => 'products#create_product', as: :create_product

Now change your view file according to the new route helper:

form_for (@products, url:{:controller=>'products', :action=>'create_product'}, html:{method:'post'})

Now the last step modify your controller:

def create_product
 #your form values are avaible here in params variable
 pp params
 puts params[:Price]
 #save your params into ur db
end

Note: I assumed that you already have product.rb model

edited Oct 7, 2017 at 6:02

answered Oct 7, 2017 at 5:38

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