This my first Rails project.
All my previous work was done it Perl, so I may be missing the
Ruby/Rails obvious here.
The site I’m working on needs to display archived programs.
Some of the programs have multiple versions, all belonging to the same
listing.
As such, I’ve set-up an extra_files table related to the archive list.
Displaying the extra files was trivial. However, when I went to edit the
edit.rhtml file, I had no idea how to format the text input fields so
that they would be automaticly picked-up and placed with the parrent.
Here’s what I have:
archives table:
id program_name file_location etc…
archives model:
class Archive < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :category
has_many :extra_file
end
extra_files table:
id archive_id name location
extra_files model:
class ExtraFile < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :archive
end
list.rhtml Relivent section:
<% @programs.each do |program| -%>
<%= link_to file.name, file.location %> <% end -%> <%= program.author %> <%= program.reference %> <%= program.format %> <%= program.description %>
Now How to display the extra_files name and location in the edit.rhtml,
so they can be edited, and returned to the proper place in the database
is where I’m stuck…
I’m presuming the extra_file id would need to be associated with the
name and location fields somehow…
Here’s my edit.rhtml as it currently stands:
Edit Program ListingEdit Program Listing
Title
Author
Format
Reference
Release Date
Description
<%= @program.description %>
Misc (extended Description)
<%= @program.misc %>
Baud
<% ['2000','300','2000 BlueRam'].each do |baud| -%>
><%= baud
%>
<% end -%>
Archival Status
File Location
Extra Ram
Yes />
No />
Category:
<% @categories.each do |category| -%>
><%= category.name %>
<% end -%>
I’m looking to add the list of existing extra files after the Category
drop-down.
I started with this:
Extra Files
<% program.extra_file.each do |file| -%>
<input id="…
… is where I realised I had NO concept how to ensure the data would
stay together properly…
Lance F. Squire