Hi again, Well I''m struck at place since several days. I have a relationship such that many services could be dependent on a service. I have listed all the dependent services of a service on the show page. Now just below the list of dependents I have provided a text field with auto complete and a button so that a user can add new dependents to the service. My problem is that I''m unable to read the value from the text field and insert into MTM table. To make things clearer I''ve following table structure for the self join: services id . . service_dependencies service_id dependent_service_id impact severity I''ve following Model service.rb has_many :service_dependencies has_many :dependents, :through => :service_dependencies service_dependency.rb belongs_to :service belongs_to :dependent, :class_name => ''Service'', :foreign_key => ''dependent_service_id'' Before controller I would tell you what I''m trying to do in my show view. Apart from displaying all the fields in services table correspoding to the service being displayed currently I have displayed all the dependents in following manner <% for depend in @service.dependents %> <%= link_to depend.send("service_name"), :action => ''show'', :id => depend.id %> <% dependency = @service.service_dependencies.find(:first, :conditions => ["dependent_service_id = ?", depend.id])%> <%=h dependency.send("impact") % <br> <%=h dependency.send("severity") %> <%end%> In order to let users'' add more dependents I''m providing text box with autocomplete in following manner: <p><label for="service_dependents_service_name">Dependent Service Name</label><br/> <%= text_field_with_auto_complete ''service_dependents'', ''service_name'', {:size => 20}, { :after_update_element => ''auto_complete_on_select'' }%> Now I want to create a button Add Dependent and pass the value of the service that is displayed at present and the value of the new dependent service that the user had entered in the text box above. Something like this <p><%= button_to "Add Dependent", :action => ''add_dependent'', :id => @service, :param => ?? %></p> In the controller I have written the body of add_dependent in following manner: def add_dependent serv = @service.find(params[:id]) depend = @service.find(params[:param]) @service_dependency = ServiceDependency.new(:service => serv, :dependent => depend) if @service_dependency.save flash[:notice] = ''Dependent added successfully.'' redirect_to :action => ''show'', :id => serv else render :action => ''show'', :id => serv end end If you are still reading, you must have understood my problem. My problem is, how would I refer to the value of dependent service entered in the text box and pass it to the add_dependent method? Similarly, how would I get the values of impact and severity in text boxes and pass it to my add_dependent method. Thanks in anticipation. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---