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Hi, I have been watching the last three episodes on railscasts.com in which he goes through dealing with multiple models in one for using fields_for, and virtual attributes. (http://railscasts.com/episodes/ 73). Here is an example of the way they suggest to go about it: # projects_controller.rb def new @project = Project.new 3.times { @project.tasks.build } end def create @project =

Currently I have a registration form that is built like this: <label for="First name">First name</label> <%= text_field "user", "first_name" %><br> <label for="Last name">Last name</label> <%= text_field "user", "last_name" %><br> <label for="Email">Email</label>

I''m hoping there''s an easy way to do this. I''m trying to read options from a database, and insert them into form tags. So for example, In the Database Table: options size: 300 type: text_field maxsize: 300 and I want to create a text_field form tag, with all the appropriate options, is there an easy way to do this, other than having the code output the HTML

Hi folks, I''m new to this... so hopefully someone can help me. I have a few objects... Property and Address and Landlord... where a Property has an address and a landlord has an address also. I''ve modelled this in the db with the properties table having an address_id and the landlord table having an address id. My rb looks like: class Property < ActiveRecord::Base

Hello folks! Beare with me for a second, while I explain my problem. Assuming we have the trivial model of class Author has_many :books end class Book end How do people go about creating the authors/edit and authors/new views if you want to be able to add and remove arbitrary amount of Books at Author creation and edit time? What I mean by this is that I go to

I want to change parts of this form in order to use default values (with a disabled input). The problem is if I change it from text_field to text_field_tag that part of the form stops functioning. It seems like a silly question, but its been driving me crazy. Any help would help. Steve. <%= error_messages_for ''post'' %> <!--[form:post]--> <p><label

I''m having lots of trouble trying to map an object that contains another object to the right forms param. So say I have Book which has one Publisher. Here is what I''ve tried: <p><label for="book_publisher">Publisher</label><br/> <%= text_field ''book'', ''publisher.name'' %> </p> Then

OK - I know this has been asked before, but I cannot find it in the archives. Forgive me if I''m creating more noise than I should. I want to know the easiest way to deal with this scenario: I have articles. I have categories for the articles. On the form where you write an article, there needs to be a free-form field to entire the category. The create() method will build the

Hello, Ive been trying to sort out this problem for a couple of days now. Here''s my problem: Im builing an ajax form that has a repetitive sequence of similar form elements (tracking_id). <%= text_field "asset", "tracking_id", "index" => i, "class" => "case" %> <%= text_field "asset", "tracking_id",

Please can someone show me the correct syntax for a hidden field in forms, this is my code <%= start_form_tag :action => ''create'' %> <div class="form1"> <table width="auto" boader="8" cellspacing="5" cellpadding="5"> <% hidden_field ''line_item'', ''client_id'', :value

I''ve run into what I think is a browser bug related to using remote_forms pushed in an RJS update. In my controller, I have an action that creates a new model and returns a form for one of its children: def create_party party = Party.create render :update do |page| page.insert_html :top, ''party-list'', :partial => ''party_header'',

Hi all All my forms should look the same, so I think always putting the right div etc. tags around them is a violation of the DRY principle. Until now my forms look like that: <div class="text_field"> <label for="news_item_subject">Subject:</label> <%= text_field "news_item", "subject" %> </div> Now I want the default

Hi There, rails noob just trying to suss a few things out. So I have 2 tables. 1 called Posts and the other called comments. On one page I need to be able to edit both the information about the post and the attributes of each comment for that post. So here is what the array might look like: (Inside the params hash) "post" => [ {"id"=>28, "title" =>

I''m trying to build something similar to a Facebook messaging app, in which the view displays all the messages for a particular thread, with a form box for replying at the bottom of the thread. The problem is that using fields_for generates form fields for each existing record, and for one new record. In this case, there is no need to edit existing messages - just a need to add new

Hi First off, I''m using Ruby 1.9.1p378 and Rails 2.3.8. I was creating a minimal application to test handling of Norwegian special characters when I bumped into this strange problem... I have a simple Car model with fields maker:string and model:string. For the controller I planned to just have an index action do all the work: class CarsController < ApplicationController def index

I''m trying to figure out how to design a view and controller to work with a simple collection. I have a Foo that has many Bars, so here''s what I did: $ ruby script/generate model Foo $ ruby script/generate model Bar (Uncomment t.column, :name: :string in foo and bar migrations) (Edit Foo.rb and Bar.rb, add has_many :bars to Foo, belongs_to :foo to Bar) $ rake db:migrate $ ruby

Hi, I?m having some problems collecting the content of some forms. This is whats in list.rhtml: <%= form_tag :action => ''send_message'' %> From: <%= text_field ''message'', ''from''%> <br>Message: <%= text_area ''message'', ''text'', :rows => 6 %> <tr> <td></td>

Hello all, I would like to be able to update the "amount" of a certain item in me order list. The problem I run into is how to define the text_field element. @order is the current order, which has_many :order_item which in turn belongs_to :order. order_item has a field "amount" which should be modified... What I tried is this below, but I get a undefined method

Hi, Basically I have two models: User and Godfather. The godfather table has three columns: - user_id (FK --> User) - user_godfather_id (FK --> User) - description (text) Inside each model class, I am adding the following associations: class User < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :godfathers # for user_id has_many :godfathers, :foreign_key =>

Hi all, I cannot find a clean way to create/edit an object that ''belongs_to'' another one, just by using form fields. I always need to explicitely unassemble it, store the master id in a hidden field, and then refetch the master from its id, and put it back in the object. To summarize: I want to create a new member, for a given project @project= ... @member =