I have page consisting of a calendar view ( http://code.google.com/p/calendardateselect/ ) as well as divs, each of which contain information about a person. In each div I want to have a link to a new controller and action, and pass the id for the person and the date selected in the calendar.

I can think of a one way, but I'm thinking there's likely a better solution:

1) Do something like:

=link_to_function "Week", "weekClicked(#{person.id})"

Then in the weekClicked() javascript method I get the selected date from the calendar, such as:

$('e_date').selected_date;

then with javascript I could make a post request as mentioned here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/133925/javascript-post-request-like-a-form-submit

2) Or, is there a way that I could make each link a button in it's own form and maybe have a hidden field that gets the selected date from the calendar as or before the form is submitted? I tried this too, but couldn't figure it out. This definitely seems like it's more on the right track than #1.

Thanks.