Access Rails Method Defined In Model Through View In Rails 3

Question

I have a method defined in my controller that I am trying to create a button or form to access.

Model

class DoThis < ActiveRecord::Base

 def take_action(a, b)

 end

end

View

<%= @do_this.take_action(@a, @b) %> 

I would like to convert the above code in the View to a button_to or form_for but cannot figure out how.

Thanks

Answer 1

You shouldn't do this. Models should never contain view code - it's intentionally not easy to do that, because it breaks MVC. Instead, you should add a helper function in your app/helpers/controller_name_helper.rb file.

def take_action(obj)
  button_to( ... )
end

Then, you'll just call <%=take_action(@do_this) %> in your view.