Accepts_nested_attributes_for :has_many :through => 'bug?'

Rails
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Hey guys & ladies!

I’ve got the following relationship which i’m trying to get
accepts_nested_attributes to work with. But when i submit my form, it
looks as if its expecting a Company object, rather than an array of
companies. which really doesn’t make sense considering its a
has_many :relationship.

So what i’m after, is a way to
accept_nested_attributes_for :companies, so when my users sign up to
the website, they can also create a company.

-------------- user.rb

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :company_users
has_many :companies, :through => :company_users

accepts_nested_attributes_for :companies
end

-------------- company.rb

class Company < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :company_users
has_many :users, :through => :company_users
end

-------------- company_user.rb
class CompanyUser < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :user
belongs_to :company
end

-------------- My form

<% form_for :user, :url => users_path do |f| -%>

<%= label_tag 'First name' %> <%= f.text_field :firstname %>

<%= label_tag 'Surname' %> <%= f.text_field :surname %>

<%= label_tag 'email' %> <%= f.text_field :email %>

<%= label_tag 'password' %> <%= f.password_field :password %>

<%= label_tag 'password_confirmation', 'Confirm Password' %> <%= f.password_field :password_confirmation %>

Company Information

<% f.fields_for :companies do |company| %> <%= render 'companies/fields', :f => company %> <% end %>

<%= submit_tag 'Sign up' %>

<% end -%>

-------------- The error

ActiveRecord::AssociationTypeMismatch in UsersController#create

Company(#2180266380) expected, got Array(#2148226700)

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Request

Parameters:

{“commit”=>“Sign up”,
“user”=>{“password_confirmation”=>“12341234”,
“companies”=>{“name”=>“1234”},
“firstname”=>“driver”,
“surname”=>“asdf”,
“password”=>“12341234”,
“email”=>“[email protected]”}}

Show session dump

Response

Headers:

{“Content-Type”=>"",
“Cache-Control”=>“no-cache”}

Thanks for reading. sorry about the length.

2

On Jan 25, 7:34 pm, mark [email protected] wrote:

the website, they can also create a company.

[snip]

Parameters:

{“commit”=>“Sign up”,
“user”=>{“password_confirmation”=>“12341234”,
“companies”=>{“name”=>“1234”},
“firstname”=>“driver”,
“surname”=>“asdf”,
“password”=>“12341234”,
“email”=>“[email protected]”}}

Your models and forms look OK, but something has gone wrong in the
generated HTML code - the ‘companies’ key should be
‘companies_attributes’ to trigger the nested attributes stuff. Can you
post the generated HTML?

–Matt J.

3

Thanks for having a look Matt, I’ve changed

<% f.fields_for :companies do |company| %>

to

<% f.fields_for :companies_attributes do |company| %>

and i’m no longer getting the “expected object, but got array error”,
now i’m getting
“undefined method `stringify_keys’ for “test”:String” where “test” was
the company name i inputted into the form. Below is the html output of
the form.

<form action="/users" class="new_user" id="new_user" method="post">
<p><label for="First_name">First name</label>
<input id="user_firstname" name="user[firstname]" size="30"

type=“text” value="" />

<p><label for="Surname">Surname</label>
<input id="user_surname" name="user[surname]" size="30" type="text"

value="" />

<p><label for="email">Email</label>
<input id="user_email" name="user[email]" size="30" type="text" /></

p>

<p><label for="password">Password</label>
<input id="user_password" name="user[password]" size="30"

type=“password” />

<p><label for="password_confirmation">Confirm Password</label>
<input id="user_password_confirmation" name="user

[password_confirmation]" size=“30” type=“password” />

<hr />
<h2>Company Information</h2>

  <input id="user_companies_attributes_name" name="user

[companies_attributes][name]" size=“30” type=“text” />

<p class="submit"><input name="commit" type="submit" value="Sign

up" />