Hi, All:

I've been reading through this book, and it's been *super* up until the section in chapter 5 on tying controls to models. The author says that "cruncher" is the name of a model object, yet in input.rhtml (p. 147), that html is called *before* any cruncher object is created (in the at method).

Furthermore, I tried changing

text_field("cruncher","crunch") ===> text_field("tcruncher","xcrunch"), and, after adjusting params[:cruncher] to params[:tcruncher], and @data_hash[:crunch] to @data_hash[:xcrunch], things still worked.

I guess I don't understand what the parameters "cruncher" and "crunch" really signify. The book states that they are supposed to be named after the model and attribute, respectively, but they don't have to be, as my experimenting demonstrated.

Is it just convention that the arguments to text_field be the lowercase name of the model and its attribute, or will this turn out to be useful later on?

Any enlightenment would be most appreciated!

Michael Rogers

I agree that the book was super, but I have laid it aside for now.

Besides trying to get Models and the crunch/cruncher thing working, I lost it earlier with Rails Shortcuts p. 137. I am using Rails 2.0.2 and there are a number of deprecated tags and "post" doesn't work.

I have tried everything I could think of for both tags and models.

Without these 2 things working, the rest of the book doesn't look very useful.

It would be great if the author would address these issues.

Does anyone know of a book that would be useful in trying to learn Rails (2.0.2)? Of course, it would be equally great is someone could figure out how to make the stuff in "Beginning Ruby on Rail" to work.

Good Luck!

Hi, rgonnering.

Thanks for getting back to me. I'm not sure what problems you were having with the shortcuts, but I did post a solution to your post problem in another thread in this forum.

As far as my original problem is concerned, it *appears* -- and if somebody else knows differently, please advise me -- that the connection between the view and the model has to be made by the programmer. You name *all* your html controls the same, so params[:thatname] returns a hash, and then the second parameter in the control becomes the key into that hash.

I thought that progamagically the view would know the model, and update its attributes, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

Michael Rogers

P137 textfields2

input.rhtml -> input.html.erb
works on RoR 2.2.2