Hi Rick,
Do you have validations in you models?
I mean like
validates_presence_of :forum_id
Besides that, I''d do a @topic.posts.new instead of Post.new
And third, please do a @forum = Forum.find(params[:forum_id])
And fourth, maybe its params[:topic][:forum_id] ??
ciao, tom
On Feb 1, 4:25 pm, rick_2047
<rick.chatter...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:> Hi!
> I''m building a discussion forum in my rails app and there seems to
be
> a problem in creating a new topic in the forum.
> I''m using three models for it forum, topic and post.
> The topic model has following fields:
> t.integer :forum_id
> t.integer :user_id
> t.string :name
> t.datetime :created_at
> t.datetime :updated_at
> t.integer :posts_count,:null => false, :default => 0
>
> the problem comes when i try to create a new topic in a forum. The
> controller has following code:
> def create
>
> @topic = Topic.new(:name => params[:topic][:name], :forum_id =>
> params[:forum_id], :user_id => logged_in_user.id)
>
> @topic.save!
>
> @post = Post.new(:body => params[:post][:body],
> :topic_id => @topic.id,
> :user_id => logged_in_user.id)
> @post.save!
>
> respond_to do |format|
> format.html { redirect_to posts_path(:topic_id =>
> @topic, :forum_id => @topic.forum.id) }
> format.xml { head :created, :location => topic_path(:id =>
> @topic, :forum_id => @topic.forum.id) }
> end
> rescue ActiveRecord::RecordInvalid
> respond_to do |format|
> format.html { render :action => ''new'' }
> format.xml { render :xml => @post.errors.to_xml }
> end
> end
>
> Now when the row is inserted into the topics table the forum_id field
> is blank. I cant figure out what''s happening here. Please help....
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