I have a rails app with notifications. Notification has :checked_at datetime attribute. On the notification index page I link every notification to the notifiable object like <%= link_to posts_path(anchor: "post_#{notification.notifiable_id}") do %>.
What I wanna achieve is when clicking on this link (that takes to the notifiable object) the notification.checked_at attribute would get updated.
I have some different solutions in my mind like an extra AJAX call when clicking on the link OR having an extra route like notifications#check_notification the link helper would point to and after checking the attribute it would redirect_to the original posts#index page.
I'm not sure which one is the preferred way (maybe a 3rd one) in rails. Could sby tell me what to do?
You could add another parameter to the route, something like update_checked_at, then on your index action inside the controller, you check if it exists and it is true.
<%= link_to posts_path(
anchor: "post_#{notification.notifiable_id}",
update_checked_at: true) do %>
def index
if params[:update_checked_at]
# Do your thing