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! -- Posted via ruby-forum.com.
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] 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! > > -- > Posted via ruby-forum.com. > _______________________________________________ > Rails mailing list > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org > lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails >
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. -- Posted via ruby-forum.com.