Ruby on Rails Passing Parameter In URL

Question

This is probably a very simple fix but I've been unable to find an answer just yet.

My application has orders and tasks. Orders have many tasks. When a user clicks new task in the show order view, it passes the order.id:

<%= link_to "New Task", new_task_path(:order_id=> @order.id) %>

The url shows:

/tasks/new?order_id=1

I just don't know how to extract this and use it in my form? I have tried:

<%= f.text_field :order_id, :value => @order_id %>

But it's not working.

Answer 1

You can do:

<%= f.text_field :order_id, :value => params[:order_id] %>

Alternately, capture the value (with params) in the controller and assign it to @order_id there.