Error: "Couldn't find Contact without an ID" -> form_tag par

Rails
1

Hi,
I Try to Add to one of my Group objects a Contact object
My model looks simplified like this:

Group has a Contacts
Contact has a Group
Contact has a City
City is owned by Contacts

I hope thats understandable.

My Form:
<% for column in Group.content_columns %>

<%= column.human_name %>: <%=h @group.send(column.name) %>

<% end %>

<%= link_to ‘Edit’, :action => ‘edit’, :id => @group %> |
<%= link_to ‘Back’, :action => ‘list’ %>


<% for contact in @group.contacts %>
<%= contact.first %>

<%= contact.name %>

<%= contact.adress %>

<% end %>

<%= form_tag :action => “contact”, :id => @group, : %>
First: <%= text_field “contact”, “first” %>
Last: <%= text_field “contact”, “name” %>
Adress: <%= text_field “contact”, “adress” %>
City: <%= text_field “contact”, “city_name” %>
<%= submit_tag “Add contact!” %>

in the controller the method looks like this:
def contact
newContact = Group.find(params[:id]).contacts.create
newContact.first = params[:first]
newContact.name = params[:name]
newContact.name = params[:adress]
existingCity = City.find_on_conditions(:all, :name =>
params[:city_name])
newContact.reload

if (existingCity[0] != nil) then
  newContact.city = existingCity[0]
else
  newContact.city = City.create
  newContact.city.name = params(:city_name)
end

flash[:notice] = "Added your new contact."
redirect_to :action => "show", :id => params[:id]

end

the following ErrorMessage reads like this:
“Couldn’t find Contact without an ID”
#{RAILS_ROOT}/app/controllers/rails_contacts_controller.rb:58:in
`contact’

Its probably a really stupid mistake. I started Ruby 2 days before so
be gentle :wink:
Thanks in Advance

2

anyone?

3

I’m a beginner, just like you, but I hope my experience will help.
After getting the same error message on my code (purely Rails/scaffold-
generated RHTML for now), I was able to find a few bits of answers on
various forums. This is what I did (my primary key field is named
“code”):

In the controller, I replaced all calls to find(params[:id]) with
calls to find_by_code(params[:code]). This function was generated by
Rails, I guess when I declared [set_primary_key “code”] in the model.
Example:

def show
#@rv_wrk_consult_type = RvWrkConsultType.find(params[:id])
# Finding by “CODE”:
@rv_wrk_consult_type =
RvWrkConsultType.find_by_code(params[:code])
end

In the views, I replaced “:id” with “:code”. Example:

<!-- Replaced ":id" below with ":code" -->
<td><%= link_to 'Show', :action => 'show', :code =>

rv_wrk_consult_type %>

<%= link_to ‘Edit’, :action => ‘edit’, :code =>
rv_wrk_consult_type %>
<%= link_to ‘Destroy’, { :action => ‘destroy’, :code =>
rv_wrk_consult_type }, :confirm => ‘Are you sure?’, :method => :post
%>

Finally, I made the following change to _form.rhtml:

Code
<%= text_field_tag 'code', params[:code], :maxlength => 10 %>

I hope this is understandable and can help you out. Of course, all
these changes are painful, especially if you have tens of legacy
database tables, like I have; so I suspect I’ll end up creating an
Oracle view with ID instead of CODE… This should prevent me from
having to do all these changes… unless the fact that CODE is
alphanumeric brings up more problems!

Chris.

4

I forgot to tell you about one other modification to the controller.
Even though my primary key is named “code”, you still need to use “id”
when you set its value in function create:

# Adding the ID ("CODE" in the database), so the non-existant

sequence isn’t called:
@rv_wrk_consult_type.id = params[:code]