# "Create" form in another Controller's "show" view **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [February 1, 2010, 11:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/create-form-in-another-controllers-show-view/182723 "2010-02-01T23:31:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![adambeazley](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@adambeazley](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/adambeazley)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2010, 11:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/create-form-in-another-controllers-show-view/182723/1 "2010-02-01T23:31:49Z")
This seems like a really obvious question, but I’m blanking on the solution. I have a simple post/comments relationship that fits the basic blog model. That means that the form to create a new comment is in the show action in the Posts controller, but the form links to the create action in the Comments controller. My question is basically: is this the best way to model that relationship? The problem I’m running into is that when posting a comment fails due to missing fields, you can’t easily “render :action =\> ‘new’” to retain the values while displaying an error message. What am I missing? ---
**Author:** ![adambeazley](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@adambeazley](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/adambeazley)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2010, 11:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/create-form-in-another-controllers-show-view/182723/2 "2010-02-01T23:54:21Z")
The problem is that you cant render another controllers action the traditional way. In the comments controller you have to render :template =\> ‘posts/show’ when a comment fails validation. ---
**Author:** ![adambeazley](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@adambeazley](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/adambeazley)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 12:18am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/create-form-in-another-controllers-show-view/182723/3 "2010-02-02T00:18:03Z")
Thank you. 🙂