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Hello All, I generated scaffolding for my Users table and setup my additional models with their associations. I want to be able to create a new user, and its associated groups and privileges from the same view. My relationships are as follows: users: has_and_belongs_to_many :groups has_many :privileges groups: has_and_belongs_to_many :users privileges: belongs_to :user Right

...d a page that just shows habtm checkboxes for the join and the updates are occuring for the join but I''m getting Access errors on the user table (which I should) . how do I limit what RAILS wants to update to just the join table. I thought this (http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/CheckboxHABTM) would do it based on the last comment. here''s my relevant parts def joinupdate @user = user.find(params[:user][:CodeMgmtUserId]) if !params[:user] @user.groups.clear else if @user.update_attribute(:group_ids,@params[''user''][''Code...

All, I''m populating a view with checkboxes in a list. I want to be able to assign to my has_many relationship using the post values of these checkboxes. Essentially, I want to populate the relationship table which will create the correct join values in my model. Here is my check_box_tag code: <%= check_box_tag("@current_job[target_list_ids][]",