Accessing associations in a form helper

Rails
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I’ve got two models, a Company and a User, and a Company belongs_to a
User. When I create/edit a company object, I’d like to be able to
modify the associated user. Can I do this directly with form helpers?
Something like
text_field(“company.user”, “login”)

Right now I’m having a user object and a company object, and then
associating them with @company.user = @user in my controller. Just
wondering if I can use the association directly, or if there’s some
preferred way to do this.

Pat

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On 1/16/06, Pat M. [email protected] wrote:

Because the helpers rely on specifically-named instance variables, you
end up having to do this:
<% @user = @company.user -%>
<%= text_field ‘user’, ‘login’ %>

Unfortunate, but there’s no way to ask an object what name it was
bound to in the calling context, so Rails has to ‘cheat’.