Hi,
I might guess there are some loyal fans of Ryan B.'s Railscasts out
there. For those who might be familiar with his two casts on nested
model forms (#196-7), I had a question…
How do I modify one (or both) of the javascript and helper functions,
respectively, that Ryan showed so that I can use them to append
multiple children? In other words, with the functions below I can
present only one model instance at a time, whereas I’d like to present
several different model instances with each call.
from application.js…
function add_fields(link, association, content) {
var new_id = new Date().getTime();
var regexp = new RegExp(“new_” + association, “g”)
$(link).up().insert({
after: content.replace(regexp, new_id)
});
}
from application_helper.rb…
def link_to_add_fields(name, f, association)
new_object =
f.object.class.reflect_on_association(association).klass.new
fields = f.fields_for(association, new_object, :child_index =>
“new_#{association}”) do |builder|
render(association.to_s.singularize + “_fields”, :f => builder)
end
link_to_function(name, h(“add_fields(this, “#{association}”,
“#{escape_javascript(fields)}”)”))
end
What I think I need to do is figure out how to append to some
arbitrary place on the DOM, like the passed-in link element. I just
don’t know how.
Thanks for any help,
Grary