Question

I want to use link_to to create a new article and set the article’s name.

This is what I’ve tried:

<%= link_to 'Create A New Article called Edward', articles_path, :name =>'Edward', :method => :post %>

It creates a new article, but it is blank.

<%= link_to 'Create A New Article called Edward', articles_path(:name =>'Edward') , :method => :post %>

does exactly the same.

Thanks for any help.

Answer 1

It looks like you need to nest it in an :articles hash since your controller is likely trying to access params[:article] to get the values (you would think that by putting it within the articles_path(...) part this would happen automatically, but it doesn’t).

articles_path(:article => {:name => "Edward"})