Id of new object dynamically created in a nested form

Rails
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In my nested form I have a link to open a popup with selections. When
a selection is made, the popup closes and the selection is added to a
text box.

Because I have objects that can be dynamically created in the form I
can’t just use the id of the object to assign the selection to the
input text box.

I have this in my view

<%= f.text_field :couchetype, :readonly=>true%> <%= link_to( image_tag('more.png', :border=>0, :id=>"sample_sample"), {:controller=>"thesaurus", :action=>"list"}, { :popup=>['thesaurus', 'height=800,width=400,location=no,scrollbars=yes']}) %>

and then this in the popup

function copyData(id,value){
var el = window.opener.document.getElementById(id);
if (!el.value)
el.value = value;
else
el.value = el.value + "; " + value;
this.close();
}

I want to send the id of the new object to the popup so that I can
refind the text box to assign the selections. How can I do that?