[Rails] A "Rails" way to design a list-like page with CRUD capabilities?

[Brian L.]

I've often wondered the same thing. Given the way that rails parses
CGI, you could make fields named people[2][firstname] and then update
Person.find(2) with the data in @params['people'][2] (assuming you use
attr_protected in the appropriate places in your model, of course).
This assumes that 2 is the id. Then at the bottom you put your update
button. I'm kinda pulling this out of nowhere but I think it will
work.

For simple 'click to remove' buttons, I tend to use a link with a get
request to immediately remove the item.

Brian

 
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 17:57:43 -0700, Duane Johnson
<duane.johnson at gmail.com> wrote:
> So I've finally figured out how to make simple and elegant
> Create/Read/Update/Delete events for a single object such as @person.
> But how do the Rails experts do it for a list of objects?
> 
> For example:
> 
> class TestController < ApplicationController
>   def list
>     @people = Person.find_all
>   end
> end
> 
> The corresponding list.rhtml view will elegantly display the array of
> Person objects.  But what if each "Person" row in the view is
> editable?  For example, the view I am imagining would generate a text
> box for the first name, last name and phone number, all the way down
> the list, and a check box next to each person to delete the
> corresponding person from the database.  Is there an elegant solution
> to this pattern in Rails?  Any sample code from those of you who've
> come across this and solved it before?
> 
> Thank-you,
> Duane Johnson
> (canadaduane)
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