Add fields to the params hash

Question

I am trying to pass a value from a view to the controller. The user is submitting a form, and I want to pass a hidden value which is not related to the form itself. So my question is: how can I manually add entries to the params hash?

Answer 1

Use params.merge.

See docs: http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Hash.html#M000759

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