How do you update HABTM relationships or create

Rails
1

Hi,

I have a User model with a HABTM relation to a Role model and vice
versa. So There’s a roles_users table that references :user and :role.

I’m using formtastic, and in the user.edit.html.erb I have a line that
outputs the roles as a multi-select list box. But the box is not
showing the roles that have been assigned to the users.

Another problem is that if I select a few roles and press the update
button, the roles are not being asssigned. I have to manually assign
roles by accessing the database.

Isn’t this stuff supposed to happen automatically when you call
@user.update_attributes(params[:user]) in the user_controller ?

Thanks in advance.

2

Hi

How do u create form here?

Sijo

3

Hi, just like the following:

<% semantic_form_for @user do |f| %>
<% f.inputs do %>
<%= f.input :email %>
<%= f.input :first_name %>
<%= f.input :last_name %>
<%= f.input :roles %>
<% end %>
<%= f.buttons %>
<% end %>

4

Ok I found the problem, I had an attr_accessor :role_ids in my User
model
which was throwing things off. Everything worked after I removed it.

5

[email protected] wrote:

I am very new to Rails and I am more or less only 6 months to 1 year
kid in Rails…

I just wondering with your code… I really dont see what is
"semantic_form_for " and f.buttons?? Is it view helper that you have
written or any plugin which overrides the default form_for construct??
This would be very helpful to me in writing the more maintainable
Rails code…

He said he was using Formtastic. That’s probably where those methods
come from. But don’t take my word for it. Google is your friend in
this case.

Best,

Marnen Laibow-Koser
http://www.marnen.org
[email protected]

6

Formtastic indeed.

7

I am very new to Rails and I am more or less only 6 months to 1 year
kid in Rails…

I just wondering with your code… I really dont see what is
"semantic_form_for " and f.buttons?? Is it view helper that you have
written or any plugin which overrides the default form_for construct??
This would be very helpful to me in writing the more maintainable
Rails code…