Rails - Mar 2006 - updating multiple attributes

I have a store administration tool I''m trying to build.

One view is an item view. Each item can have many attributes.
Example:
         item: bike
           item_id: 2333
           attribute: id: 3 #auto-increment
                      item_id: 2333 #primary key
                      attribute_type: wheels #a type of attribute
                      attribute_order: 1 #the order it shows up in the 
list
           attribute: id: 4 #auto-increment
                      item_id: 2333 #primary key
                      attribute_type: wheels #a type of attribute
                      attribute_order: 2 #the order it shows up in the 
list
           attribute: id: 6 #auto-increment
                      item_id: 2333 #primary key
                      attribute_type: colors #a type of attribute
                      attribute_order: 1 #the order it shows up in the 
list


This bike may have many wheel attributes, many color attributes, etc.

What I''d like to do is be able to have a view that displays both the 
item level information, and all of the attributes of that item so I can 
edit them all on one page.


I''m not sure how the name of the input tag would be structured.

ex: <input type="text"
name="item_item_attribute_attribute_typeXYZ">

But how do I specify which one of the attributes?

And then how would I update the entire list of attributes in the 
controller?
@item.update_attributes(params[XYZ])
?


Thanks for your help!

Dave



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David C. wrote:
> 
> I have a store administration tool I''m trying to build.
> 
 Solved my own problem.... thx

 This helped a bunch.

http://jgchristopher.blogspot.com/2005/09/ruby-on-rails-editing-multiple-rows-of.html


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