How to process collection_select in controller?

Rails
1

Hello everyone,

I am currently somewhat stuck figuring out an elegant solution to my
following
problem:

Let’s say I have the following classes:

class Event < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :reg_template, :class_name => “EmailTemplate”
[…]
end

class EmailTemplate < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :events
[…]
end

And a view that contains:

<%= f.collection_select(:reg_template_id, EmailTemplate.all, :id, :name)
%>

What is the recommended way of processing this form field in an action
controller?

Having a 1:1 relationship between Event and EmailTemplate means that
Rails
does not generate a reg_template_id and reg_template_id= method (as it
would
do for a 1:n relationship), so attempts to read or assign this field
will fail
with:
unknown attribute: reg_template_id
when attempting to call
Event.update_attributes

Using
<%= f.collection_select(:reg_template, EmailTemplate.all, :id, :name) %>
instead also does not help much as it will fail with:
EmailTemplate(#70070455907700) expected, got String(#70070510199800)

I guess I must be missing something terribly obvious as I think is is
rather
common to update a model instance with a reference to another object
through a
collection_select.

Thanks & kind regards,
Thilo

2

On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 10:15 PM, Thilo-Alexander Ginkel
[email protected] wrote:

end
What is the recommended way of processing this form field in an action
Using

Hello Thilo,

In my opinion, there is nothing wrong with your piece of code. Are you
sure you have a reg_template_id column in your table ? Could you show
us the migration for the Event class ?

–
Gael Muller

3

use this

<%= collection_select(:book, :subject_id,
@subjects, :id, :name) %>

some thing like this or

Edit Book Detail

<% form_tag :action => 'update', :id => @book do %>

Title: <%= text_field 'book', 'title' %>

Price: <%= text_field 'book', 'price' %>

Subject: <%= collection_select(:book, :subject_id, @subjects, :id, :name) %>

Description
<%= text_area 'book', 'description' %>

<%= submit_tag "Save changes" %> <% end %> <%= link_to 'Back', {:action => 'list' } %>

its just an idea

<%= f.collection_select(:reg_
template_id, EmailTemplate.all, :id, :name) %>

On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Gael Muller
[email protected]wrote:

class Event < ActiveRecord::Base

do for a 1:n relationship), so attempts to read or assign this field will

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Hello Gael,

On Tuesday 02 March 2010 10:35:26 Gael Muller wrote:

In my opinion, there is nothing wrong with your piece of code. Are you
sure you have a reg_template_id column in your table ? Could you show
us the migration for the Event class ?

sorry for the delayed response - some unexpected events got in my way…

Back to the topic: Well, I had manually added the column to the database
table
in addition to creating the corresponding migration and apparently
missed that
the column is supposed to be named reg_template_id and not just
reg_template.

With the right column naming everything started working as expected.

Sorry for the confusion and thanks for your hint!

Thanks,
Thilo