Rails - Jul 2006 - text_field and date_select in collection

hello,

	i would like to display a collection of records on one page (e.g. an
author record with all his/her books).

	a record contains a text_area (e.g. a description of the book) and a
date_select (e.g. when the book was published).

<% for @book in @author.books %>
	<%= text_area ''book[]'', ''note'' %>
	<%= datetime_select ''book[]'',
''published_on'' %>
<% end %>

	the text_field works nice, the generated code looks like:

<textarea cols="40" id="book_12_desc"
name="book[12][desc]">foo</textarea>

	the ID of a book record is there.


	BUT i do not know, how to achieve this with the date_select helper?
	the helper generates:

<select name="book[published_on(2i)]">
	<option value="00">00</option
...

	it should be name="book[12][published_on(2i)]"


	how to do that? (:prefix, :discard_type did not work for me)


		thanks

		ondrej

Ondrej Jaura wrote:
> 	i would like to display a collection of records on one page (e.g. an
> author record with all his/her books).
> ...
> 
> 	BUT i do not know, how to achieve this with the date_select helper?
> 	the helper generates:
> 
> <select name="book[published_on(2i)]">
> 	<option value="00">00</option
> ...
> 
> 	it should be name="book[12][published_on(2i)]"
> 
> 
> 	how to do that? (:prefix, :discard_type did not work for me)
As the core code is currently written, you can''t use either auto or
explicit indexing with date_select.  You''ll have to use select_year,
select_month, and select_day, using @book.published_on as their dates,
prefix options set to "book[#{@book.id}]", and field_name options
''published_on(1i)'', ''published_on(2i)'', and
''published_on(3i)''.

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Mark Reginald James wrote:
> Ondrej Jaura wrote:
> 
>>     i would like to display a collection of records on one page (e.g.
an
>> author record with all his/her books).
>> ...
>>
>>     BUT i do not know, how to achieve this with the date_select helper?
>>     the helper generates:
>>
>> <select name="book[published_on(2i)]">
>>     <option value="00">00</option
>> ...
>>
>>     it should be name="book[12][published_on(2i)]"
>>
>>
>>     how to do that? (:prefix, :discard_type did not work for me)
> 
> As the core code is currently written, you can''t use either auto
or
> explicit indexing with date_select.  You''ll have to use
select_year,
> select_month, and select_day, using @book.published_on as their dates,
> prefix options set to "book[#{@book.id}]", and field_name options
> ''published_on(1i)'', ''published_on(2i)'',
and ''published_on(3i)''.
	thanks :)

	have a nice day

		ondrej