Re: help needed with where and how best to set a param

Have you tried making this special route a :collection route instead
of a :member route?

If it were a collection route then the :id would be optional... but it
might also solve the bigger problem more gracefully.  In your popup
action you could have something like this:

@order = params[:id].nil? ? Order.new : Order.find_by_id(params[:id])

Then your view could build the url either for insert (new_record?) or
update.  If you're already taking advantage of the new Rails 'form_for
@ivar' then it should be done for you.

HTH,
AndyV

On May 15, 6:16 pm, Becca Girl <rails-mailing-l...@...>
wrote:
> Once again, I'm writing about a pop-up window issue and need some help.
> Trying to insert a new record prior to the pop-up and other sorts of
> things has proven to be a much bigger problem so instead I'll have a
> default record that will serve as a placeholder for new pop-up window
> values.
>
> In my main form, if I'm editing an order, the order id is sent to the
> pop-up window.  Then my pop-up window uses that information.  If it's a
> new order, the pop-up window doesn't have an order id.
>
> To work around this, I'd like to set a default order ID that I'll use
> for new orders so that the pop-up window options work.
>
> My link to the pop-up looks like this:
>
> <%= link_to 'small window',{ :controller => 'codes', :action =>
> 'pop_up',
> :id => @order},  :popup => ['codes',
> 'width=450,height=600,menubar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes'] %>
>
> How can I override :id => @order so that I send in a default ID of 1?
>
> If anyone has other, better design ideas, I'd love to hear them.  I
> think I've exhausted all of the ones that I have seen.
> --
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