按下link_to时如何执行Ruby命令？

Question

Basically, what I want to do is run a FactoryGirl.create whenever a link_to is pressed.

Right now, every time I want to generate a new object in my DB, I have to go into Rails Console and type: FactoryGirl.create(:object) .

But, ideally...I would love to be able to execute that from the link_to .

Not sure how to do that though.

Thoughts?

Answer 1

I suppose you could treat the creation of an object via FactoryGirl like any other RESTful resource with a dedicated controller and routes:

class MyFactoryGirlController

  def create
    if FactoryGirl.create(:object)
      # Do something
    end
  end
end

routes.rb

post '/someroute', to: 'myfactorygirl#create', as: :factory_girl

And your link:

link_to "Create an object", factory_girl_path(object: 'SomeObject'), method: :post

Note that this code is meant to illustrate a concept and is incomplete. Copy and pasting will not work.