Ruby on Rails - multiple edit

Question

Railscasts did a great tutorial on how to do multiple edit from a selection. But I want to build on top of it. What if I want to do more actions (edit and destroy)? This is similar to gmails ability to preform different actions on mail.

I created my form and I have a drop down menu of the action. The form goes to a action in my controller which is supposed to redirect it to the correct action (edit vs destroy). I'm trying to do this with redirect_to and pass my parameters along, but its not working correctly.

def action
  if params[:perform_action] == 'edit'
    redirect_to :action => 'edit_multiple', :structure_ids => params[:structure_ids]
  elsif params[:perform_action] == 'destroy'
    redirect_to destroy_multiple_structures_path, :structure_ids => params[:structure_ids]
  end
end

But this isn't working properly. My edit_multiple is actually redirected to the show action. Even though I have it set up in my routes and all.

How do I properly pass the parameters on? Or is it a matter of the method its being passed (and if so, how do I change that?) Or what is the proper way to do this (if this isn't it)?

I tired passing params on but that didn't work.

I am using a collection in routes.rb but I can't figure out how to change the redirect_to to be giving a POST. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Ok, so I can't seem to figure out how to get method to change in redirect_to and I can't figure out how to get the params passed correctly. THEREFORE I "cheated" and used jQuery to change the action of the form itself:

$("#action").change(function(e){
    var changeTo = $(e.target);
    var value = changeTo.attr("value");
    if(value == 'edit'){
        $("form").attr("action","/myController/edit_multiple");
        $("form").attr("method","POST");
    }
    if(value == 'destroy'){
        $("form").attr("action","/myController/destroy_multiple");
        $("form").attr("method","DELETE");

    }
});

Its not optimized but it works. And action is the id of the select tag. Hope that helps someone else.

Answer 2

FYI- update_all or delete_all is your friend, here.