Hiya I am looking at Rails 2.3.2 and how to cleanly do the following: - I have model User - User has many Plans - User has one Active Plan - New User form has fields on it to create the Active Parent I want to create a new User with an Active Plan in one form. At the moment I have: class User < ActiveRecord::Base has_one :active_plan, :class_name => ''Plan'', :conditions => [''active = ?'', true] has_many :plans def active_plan_attributes=(attributes) plans.build(attributes.merge(:active => true)) end end So that in the form I can wrap the active plan fields in: <% f.fields_for :active_plan, @active_plan do |ap| %> ... <% end %> The @active_plan is being set in the user controller new action atm. Is this the cleanest approach, or is there something else I can use? accepts_nested_attributes_for did not seem to suit to set the plan to being active ... but could be missing something on that? cheers rich