Question

I have a page for viewing each individual customer, which then has a form at the bottom of it to enter a new license, i want that form to automatically fill the hidden field with the id of the current pages customer. Here is the code for my hidden field:

<%= f.hidden_field :customer_id, :value => '1' %>

I’ve currently set the value to 1, which works, but i need it to automatically use the ID instead. this is what’s in my controller for this view:

def show
    @customer = Customer.find(params[:id])
    @license = License.find_by_customer_id(@customer.id)
    @software = Software.all
    @licenses = License.new

respond_to do |format|
  format.html # show.html.erb
  format.json { render json: @customer }
end
end

Answer 1

Try
<%= f.hidden_field :customer_id, :value => @customer.id %>