Question

I’m creating a report system which uses a meta question model to create the reports. Basically i have a table with a number of questions like the following:

variables table:

id | name | variable_type | description | breakpoint | time_frequency

Now the system builds the report question depending on things like the time frequency of the report.

Now i have two tables in order to save the reports:

report_bodies table:

variable_id | report_id | value

report_heads table

id | email | name

With this approch i need to create the report and then use that id to save the answers to the questions of that report.

I have done an after_filter in the report_heads controller to somehow pass the next function the just created id.

after_filter :go_to_report, :only => :create

finally my empty go_to_report function

def go_to_report 
    #what to do here?
end

Thank you in advance.

Update

So, i discovered that i could call the new function of the report_bodies directly from the creation of the report_head with this:

        format.html { redirect_to :new_report_body, notice: 'Report head was successfully created.', :parameter => @report_head.id }

And the the new function for report_bodies is:

  def new
    @report_head_id = :parameter
    @report_questions = getDailyVariables
    @report_body = ReportBody.new

    respond_to do |format|
      format.html # new.html.erb
      format.json { render json: @report_body }
    end
  end

However when the in the view i’m not receiving the id of the report_head but a simple string instead

<!-- code from the view (_form.html.erg): -->
<%= builder.hidden_field :report_id, :value => @report_head_id %>

<!-- rendered view: -->
<input id="report_bodies_report_id" name="report_bodies[report_id]" value="parameter" type="hidden">

Answer 1

It looks like you’re receiving the simple string "parameter" because you’re setting @report_head_id to a symbol :parameter in your new action.

In the new action, try using @report_head_id = params[:parameter] instead.