Questions tagged [controller-actions]
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Should I make my ASP.NET MVC controller actions virtual?
File -> New Project for ASP.NET MVC projects used to generate controllers with virtual actions. I'm not sure if that stopped with MVC 2 or MVC 3, but is this no longer a best practice?

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How do Rails' Controllers work?
1.) Is it possible to create a controller action that does not directly interact with a model? (i.e. upload a file to be parsed, then added to a DB model)
2.) What is the controller's order of operation? I don't understand how the controller action…

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ASP.NET MVC selects the wrong controller action
I have a controller with two actions which have the same name, but one accepts some parameters. To disambiguate them, one accepts only GET requests, while the other accepts only POST requests. I also have an HttpAjaxAttribute which is used to…

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Access model in controller-action?
I'm editing an object with a form and want to save the changed object from within the controller-action which is bound to the submit-button. I don't want to bind the values directly to the template.
Here's the admin/edit.hbs

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ASP.NET MVC View Issue when returning ActionResult from different Action
I have two ASP.NET MVC Actions:
public ActionResult GetAll()
{
return GetOne(1);
}
public ActionResult GetOne(Int32 id)
{
return View(id);
}
As you can see, GetAll is calling the action GetOne. However, when GetAll() is called…

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Creating actions and routes for tags and categories
I'm creating a blog for myself with Rails 3.2.5, and am trying to handle tags and categories properly. I want to allow the user to click on a link_to with the tag name that brings them to other entries with the same tag and have the URL be…

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How can I access the args on the RESTful URL from a Controller?
I asked a preliminary and somewhat similar question here.
Now I need to know how to access the values from within a RESTful URL inside a Controller method/action.
I have a Controller named PlatypusController with a route for it set up like this in…

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why would i get a different views when called from different controller actions in asp.net-mvc
I have 2 different controller actions. As seen below, one calls the same view as the other one. The fitness version has a bunch of jquery ui tabs.
public ActionResult FitnessByTab(string tab, DateTime entryDate)
{
return…

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Rails4: creating and editing an object, through its association to another object, to a form_for helper
I have 2 models that are associated with each other via a join table:
class Book < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :reviews
has_many :readers, through: :libraries
end
class Reader < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :reviews
has_many :books,…

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Best practice for controller actions for changing state of model
I have a controller with the normal CRUD actions for a resource called "Issue". The Issue table has a boolean called published to save the state of each instance. When an issue gets the published boolean set to true, all the other instances of Issue…

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