Ruby on Rails

On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Max <aamax@xmission.com> wrote:

> I have an index page in my site and each item displayed from the model
> has a link (that looks like a button)... I want that link to simply
> clear a field (or set it to some value) in the underlying model for
> that entry...

Uh, realizing that every time a spider comes along to index your site,
every one of those links will be activated? (unless the page in question
is password protected)

> The page does not have a form on it and i'd like to avoid that if possible....

Google 'http idempotent request' to understand why you should use a
POST rather than GET for actions that change data.

HTH,
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