Rails - Apr 2006 - How to manage one to many within application.

Hi,

    I have an application with a customer model, and an address model. A 
customer has a one to many relationship with an address. I currently 
have an add new customer page, that incorporates an "add address" 
button, which places a helper form within a div using the link_to_remote 
function. I can click the add address button multiple times, and it will 
add multiple address inputs to my page. I am currently storing my 
customer object within a session and each time the user presses "add 
address" I add an address to the customer model, and then loop through 
the number of addresses my customer has and display the add address form 
that many times.

My question is, how do i store this customer address information, so 
that i do not loose it between clicks. Does my "add address" button
have
to post the entire form and save it to the session. And if so how do I 
distinguish the different addresses? Does it post it in some sort of 
array?

I cannot find any examples on the web on how to do this properly, but if 
you know of any please share them.

Here is my code for this so far.

_address_form
<!--[form:address]-->
<% session[:customer].addresses.each do %>
    <label for="customer_address_name">Address
Title</label><br>
    <%= text_field ''address'', ''name'' 
%> <br>
    <label
for="customer_address_email">Email</label><br/>
    <%= text_field ''address'', ''address'' 
%> <br>
......
<%end%>
<!--[eoform:address]-->

<!--[form:customer]-->
    <label for="customer_company_name">Company
name</label><br>
    <%= text_field ''customer'', ''name'' 
%> <br>
    <label for="customer_email">Email</label><br/>
    <%= text_field ''customer'', ''email'' 
%> <br>
.....
<!--[eoform:customer]-->

#customer_new
<% @page_title = "New Customer"%>
<center><%= link_to ''Back'', :action =>
''customer_list'' %></center>
<br>
<%= start_form_tag :action => ''customer_create'' %>
  <%= render :partial => ''customer_form'' %>
  <div id="mydiv">
  </div>
                  <%= link_to_remote ("Add Address",
                                    :complete => "new 
Effect.Highlight(''mydiv'')",
                                    :update => "mydiv",
                                    :url => {:action => :_address_form}) 
%>
  <%= submit_tag "Create" %>
<%= end_form_tag %>
<br>
<center><%= link_to ''Back'', :action =>
''customer_list'' %><%=
session[:test]%></center>
<br>
#end customer new

#Controller
def customer_new
    @tax_groups = TaxGroup.find(:all)
    @states = State.find(:all)
    @countries = Country.find(:all)
    @terms = Term.find(:all)
    @states = State.find(:all)
    @countries = Country.find(:all)
    @customer = Customer.new
    session[:customer] = @customer
  end

  def customer_create
    @tax_groups = TaxGroup.find(:all)
    @states = State.find(:all)
    @countries = Country.find(:all)
    @terms = Term.find(:all)
    @states = State.find(:all)
    @countries = Country.find(:all)
    @customer = Customer.new(params[:customer])
    @customer.address.push(params[:address])

    if @customer.save
      flash[:notice] = ''Customer was successfully created.''
      redirect_to :action => ''customer_list''
    else
      render :action => ''customer_new''
    end

    @tax_groups = TaxGroup.find(:all)
    @terms = Term.find(:all)
  end

  def _address_form
    @states = State.find(:all)
    @countries = Country.find(:all)
    session[:customer].save
    address = Address.new
    session[:customer].addresses.push(address)
    @customer = session[:customer]
    render(:layout => false)
  end

Thanks for the help!


-- 
Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.