Question

In my application, I’ve a ‘warehouse‘ model that own several fields such as id,name,description, etc, and a boolean field called ‘done’.

In my view, I want to insert a button or link field,which, when clicked, should set (through HTTP POST method) warehouse.done = true
How can I do this?

Notes: User cannot input warehouse.done field so I suppose to pass it to application as hidden field

Answer 1

I made a couple of assumptions on the views, controller.

html

<a href="#" id="set-warehouse-done"> DONE </a>
<input id="warehouse-id" type="hidden" value="24">

js

$(document).ready(function() {
  $('#set-warehouse-done').click(function() {
    $.ajax({
      url: '/warehouse/' + $('#warehouse-id').attr('value');
      type: 'POST'
      data: done: true
    });
  });
}

warehouse_controller.rb

def update
  @warehouse = Warehouse.find(params[:id])
  if params[:done]
    if @warehouse.update_attributes(:done, params[:done])
      flash[:notice] = 'Warehouse updated successfully'
    else
      flash[:error] = 'Could not update warehouse'