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author | James Miller <james@jkmillertech.com> | 2008-09-21 08:32:34 -0700 |
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committer | James Miller <james@jkmillertech.com> | 2008-09-21 08:32:34 -0700 |
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New and create actions
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diff --git a/railties/doc/guides/getting_started_with_rails/getting_started_with_rails.txt b/railties/doc/guides/getting_started_with_rails/getting_started_with_rails.txt index 2805e5629d..c181d1432c 100644 --- a/railties/doc/guides/getting_started_with_rails/getting_started_with_rails.txt +++ b/railties/doc/guides/getting_started_with_rails/getting_started_with_rails.txt @@ -317,7 +317,37 @@ This time, we're setting `@post` to a single record in the database that is sear ==== New & Create -Description of new and create actions +In your controller, you'll see the `new` and `create` actions, which are used together to create a new record. Our `new` action simply instantiates a new Post object without any parameters: + +----------------------------------------- +def new + @post = Post.new + + respond_to do |format| + format.html # new.html.erb + format.xml { render :xml => @post } + end +end +---------------------------------------- + +Our `create` action, on the other hand, instantiates a new Post object while setting its attributes to the parameters that we specify in our form: + +---------------------------------------- +def create + @post = Post.new(params[:post]) + + respond_to do |format| + if @post.save + flash[:notice] = 'Post was successfully created.' + format.html { redirect_to(@post) } + format.xml { render :xml => @post, :status => :created, :location => @post } + else + format.html { render :action => "new" } + format.xml { render :xml => @post.errors, :status => :unprocessable_entity } + end + end +end +--------------------------------------- ==== Edit & Update |