Say I have an Article model, and in the article 'new' view I have two buttons, "Publish" and "Save Draft".
My question is how can I know which button is clicked in the controller.
I already have a solution but I think there must be a better way. What I currently used in the view is:
<div class="actions">
<%= f.submit "Publish" %>
<%= f.submit "Save Draft", :name => "commit" %>
</div>
So in the controller, I can use the params[:commit] string to handle that action.
def create
@article = Article.new(params[:article])
if params[:commit] == "Publish"
@article.status = 'publish'
// detail omitted
end
@article.save
end
But I think using the view related string is not good. Could you tell me another way to accomplish this?
UPDATE: Since these buttons are in the same form, they're all going to the 'create' action, and that's OK for me. What I want is to handle that within the create action, such as give the Article model a 'status' column and holds 'public' or 'draft'.