Duplicating a record in Rails 3

Question

I have a prescription model in my Rails 3 application. I am trying to work out the best method of allowing records to be duplicated, but allowing the user to \"review\" the

Answer 1

To do this, you're going to have to create a new instance of your Prescription class. "dup" works, but you're assuming it overwrites the existing record. Only methods that end with a bang(!) tend to do that.

Your code should be:

def clone
 @prescription = Prescription.find(params[:id])
 @new_prescription = @prescription.dup
 @new_prescription.save
end

or

def clone
 @prescription = Prescription.find(params[:id]).dup
 @prescription.save
end

This isn't testing for times when the :id isn't found.