Using link_to_remote to add a record

Rails
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I am trying to use link_to_remote to simply add a record to a database
table called “ratings”. I’ve seen some examples of this being done but
can’t seem to get it to work. Any ideas about what I’m doing wrong?

Here is what I have in my view:

<%= link_to_remote( “1”, {:url => { :controller => “ratings”, :action =>
“rate”, :rateable_id => “1”, :rating => “1”, :rateable_type =>
“article”}}) %>

Here is what I have in RatingsController:

def rate
@rating = Rating.new(:rateable_id => params[:rateable_id],
:rating => params[:rating],
:rateable_type => params[:rateable_type])
end

I found that I can successfully write to the database through the
console with:

rating = Rating.new
rating.rating = 3
rating.save

I can also update the database using forms in my view but I can’t seem
to get it to work with link_to_remote. Any tips on debugging AJAX using
rails would be really helpful as well. Thanks.

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– – wrote:

I am trying to use link_to_remote to simply add a record to a database
table called “ratings”. I’ve seen some examples of this being done but
can’t seem to get it to work. Any ideas about what I’m doing wrong?

What’s your functional test case look like?

                     :rating => params[:rating],
                     :rateable_type => params[:rateable_type])

end

I found that I can successfully write to the database through the
console with:

rating = Rating.new
rating.rating = 3
rating.save

Why don’t you have a save! in the controller? and why you didn’t use
.create! ?

At a guess, your test case should look a little like this:

fixtures :ratings  #  this automatically zilches the last test's

records

def test_new_rate
xhr :get, :rate, :rateable_id => 42, :rating => 1.1,
:rateable_type => ‘hot dogs’

rate = Rating.find_by_rateable_id 42
assert_equal 'hot dogs', rate.rateable_type

end

To put it another way, all the experiments you currently do with the
console, you should instead do as test cases. Then they help you avoid
bugs
and develop faster.

–
Phlip
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