Ruby on Rails

On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 9:52 AM, Colin Nolic <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:

> 1 - The user search a movie by the name
> 2 - I render a list of movies with various informations (like director,
> actors) fetched from the external API. And yes I need the list to be
> fresh every time.
> 3 - The user pick a movie from the list
> 4 - I store the informations, of the movie the user choose, in the
> database so the user can consult these informations latter.
>
> I'm stuck on how to achieve the step 4.
>
> - I could make another request to the API for the selected movie but I
> want to minimize API's requests.
> - I could extract movie details from the view. I don't know if it's
> truly possible but I doesn't seem quite right anyway.
> - I could store the movie details from the step 2 and delete all
> informations I don't need latter.
> - I could use volatile memory to store movie details from step 2, and
> then store the movie the user choose in the database.

You're writing all this data to a view anyway; why not just make each
entry a form with that movie's data? Choose, click button, submitted
and done. No additional API call, no need for temporary "storage".

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