Hi, I was pleased to see how easy it is to add more then one new items in a form: form_tag :action => ''update_multiple'' do 3.times do @item = Item.new # create an active record object text_field ''item[]'', ''name'' end end the action "update_multiple" now gets a list of the three items (params[:item]). Wonderful. It even works for already known items / items from the database: form_tag :action => ''update_multiple'' do @item = Item.find(1) text_field ''item[]'', ''name'' @item = Item.find(2) text_field ''item[]'', ''name'' @item = Item.find(3) text_field ''item[]'', ''name'' end Here also "update_multiple" gets the list... ...but I would not post here if I don''t have a problem. If I mix both using some new und some known items than I get an server error: form_tag :action => ''update_multiple'' do # show some "old" items @item = Item.find(1) text_field ''item[]'', ''name'' @item = Item.find(2) text_field ''item[]'', ''name'' # add three new items 3.times do @item = Item.new # create an active record object, which doesn''t have an id yet text_field ''item[]'', ''name'' end end this leads to the error 500-message. When I look into the log file the following entry comes up: -------------- Conflicting types for parameter containers. Expected an instance of Array, but found an instance of Hash. This can be caused by passing Array and Hash based paramters qs[]=value&qs[key]=value. c:/programme/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.13.3/lib/action_controller/cgi_ext/cgi_methods.rb:204:in `type_conflict!'' c:/programme/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.13.3/lib/action_controller/cgi_ext/cgi_methods.rb:168:in `container'' c:/programme/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.13.3/lib/action_controller/cgi_ext/cgi_methods.rb:155:in `post_key_check'' c:/programme/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.13.3/lib/action_controller/cgi_ext/cgi_methods.rb:134:in `parse'' c:/programme/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.13.3/lib/action_controller/cgi_ext/cgi_methods.rb:37:in `parse_request_parameters'' c:/programme/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.13.3/lib/action_controller/cgi_ext/cgi_methods.rb:28:in `each'' c:/programme/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.13.3/lib/action_controller/cgi_ext/cgi_methods.rb:28:in `parse_request_parameters'' [...] ------------------ How can I achieve that I can edit new as well as "old" items from a database? In my real application I want the user to edit a list of items and append some items (via ajax). When done the complete list (one form) is posted to the action. One solution is to have an id for the new items, but as there are not yet written to the database this must be a fictious id which is harder to handle. Hope somebody can help me...Thanks in advance Steffen --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---