Rails Usage Question

[toddh]

Hello.

I'm trying to use nexter and siphon with Rails and have a question.

I have a regular controller with index, show, edit, etcetera and have added a before_filter like your example.

My questions are where does "params[:book_search]" come from for actions such as show and what is the BookSearch class?

I had though that maybe BookSearch was similar to OrderForm in siphon. But now I'm not so sure. I hadn't planned on putting a form in my views other than index.

Thanks in advance for any clarification.

[charly]

Hi,
I'll give you a short answer and try to bring some clarifications in the readme when I have more time.
You assumed it right : OrderForm == BookSearch.

Also you need to pass params[:book_search], which is a hash of BookSearch, in the link bringing you to the books/show e.g :

link_to book.title, book_path(@book, book_search: params[:book_search])

similar to

link_to "previous", book_path(@book.previous, book_search: params[:book_search])

If you don't have any param[:book_search] you can set a default order in BookSearch.

Hope it helps