Rails - Apr 2006 - Formatting a list from the DB

I am working on a project where there is a table called mixes.  You 
create a new Mix and in the contents box, you type in the name of the 
songs used.  Because the number of tracks could be unlimited, I decided 
to use a text box.  Is there anyway I can have my views make the list 
look right, instead of as a jumble of text.  Or, would there be some 
way, using arrays and maybe ajax, so the user would see perhaps 10 
inputs, and could hit a button and a new field would appear, and this 
would go into the db as an array?  Thanks!

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You can format a bunch of text using RedCloth[1].  For your app,
however, it seems like it''d make a lot more sense to have a Song
model, which belongs_to :mix.  A Mix has_many :songs.  Yes you can
dynamically add a bunch of songs..take a look at the ajax scaffolding
for some ideas on getting started.

Pat

[1] http://whytheluckystiff.net/ruby/redcloth/

On 4/3/06, Chris Carter <cdcarter@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I am working on a project where there is a table called mixes.  You
> create a new Mix and in the contents box, you type in the name of the
> songs used.  Because the number of tracks could be unlimited, I decided
> to use a text box.  Is there anyway I can have my views make the list
> look right, instead of as a jumble of text.  Or, would there be some
> way, using arrays and maybe ajax, so the user would see perhaps 10
> inputs, and could hit a button and a new field would appear, and this
> would go into the db as an array?  Thanks!
>
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Pat Maddox wrote:
> You can format a bunch of text using RedCloth[1].  For your app,
> however, it seems like it''d make a lot more sense to have a Song
> model, which belongs_to :mix.  A Mix has_many :songs.  Yes you can
> dynamically add a bunch of songs..take a look at the ajax scaffolding
> for some ideas on getting started.
I will look into RedCloth.  The reason I want to avoid a model for Song 
is because then it is quite probable I would end up with 12 "Eleanor 
Rigby"s or something.

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