Question

I feel like I’m missing a fundamentally easier way to do this; either way, I don’t appear to have the syntax for array figured out. Trying to stuff things into the params array. Any help is appreciated.

@user = User.find(params[:user][:id])

array_of_match_information = Array.new
array_of_match_information[mentee] = @user.id
array_of_match_information[mentor] = self.id
array_of_match_information[status] = "Pending"    

@match = Match.new(params[:array_of_match_information])

Thanks.

Answer 1

array_of_match_information = Hash.new
array_of_match_information[:mentee] = @user.id
array_of_match_information[:mentor] = self.id
array_of_match_information[:status] = "Pending"    

EDIT

Hash is a key/value storage, like you intend to do.

mentee is a key that will be associated to a value @user_id

Array don’t organize data (unless you consider the position in the Array is known and meaningful)

EDIT2:

And correct this:

@match = Match.new(array_of_match_information)

EDIT3:

I encourage you to have a look at http://railsforzombies.org, it seems you need a good tutorial.

Actually, building an app when you’re learning could be hazardous because when you don’t know basic architecture, you end up overcoding unmaintainable code.

For instance, your line:

    array_of_match_information[:mentor] = self.id

seems really weird.