Question

I have a calendar_date_select in a view that shows a table listing all the information on a certain phone. I want to add a To: and From: date range that a user can select and update the table in the view. The structure is like this:

Usage Controller
Detail action in the usage controller that shows the call history from a certain phone.
Inside detail I want the To and from fields with a refresh button.

What is exactly happening in this code:

<% form_for :date_range do |f| %>
    <%= f.calendar_date_select :start, :time => true  %>
    <%= f.calendar_date_select :end, :time => true  %>
    <%= f.submit "Submit" %>
<% end %>

Does this pass a hash to the usage controller and look for a date_range method? My current route looks like this

usage/detail/id-of-phone

I would like it to look something like this:

usage/detail/id-of-phone#start-end

So I could then (I think) extract the start and end dates from the params with just params[:start] and params[:end]. Am I doing this right, or is there a better way to get the desired result that I want.

Answer 1

I haven’t used the calendar_date_select plugin, but you should be getting the parameters back already.

params[:date_range][:start]
params[:date_range][:end]