ruby on rails display if page has been visited (pending, yes, no)

Question

I am using Rails 4 and PHPmyadmin

I designed a form that sends an email with two links, let's call them Link #1 and Link #2.

I need to know if the user that received the email has clicked on link #1 or link #2.

I already have the landing view #1 and view #2 with their corresponding id's, and can access both links.

The end result is that in my list table I need to display the status of every email sent with either:

Pending (if user hasn't clicked on any link)
Link #1 (if user clicked on it)
Link #2 (if user clicked on it)

I know that I need to associate the email id with the view id, but don't know how to do this.

Something like this:

EMAIL.......... LINK CLICKED
[email protected]  pending
[email protected]  Link 1
[email protected]  Link 2

I have found this similar question and this other one, however I don't know how to implement it in my app.

I don't know Ruby but check if there is a data structure like a HashMap where you can store "[email protected]" -> "1". Then your html would have: name="emailsMap['[email protected]']" — egallardo, May 02 '14 at 05:29
Check this out too: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1227571/how-to-iterate-over-a-hash-in-ruby — egallardo, May 02 '14 at 05:31
Thanks for that link, it helped me to understand the process a bit. — pochat, May 03 '14 at 17:24

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered May 02 '14 at 05:52

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Each link relates to a method in the controller that renders the view.. in your case Link#1 and Link#2 will correspond to some specific action in some controller. You can place checks there against the user you have sent email. Please tell if this helps

answered May 02 '14 at 05:52

noman tayyab

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Allright, so I did what you said and that worked! I created a controller and a method. Now I am able to save in the database the link id. Now I need to know how to retrieve it, all I'm getting on a link.inspect is the <8883922xhh220>. thanks a lot. – pochat May 03 '14 at 17:26
what are you storing and what do you want to retrieve? – noman tayyab May 27 '14 at 13:07

ruby on rails display if page has been visited (pending, yes, no)

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