Newbie question: How to save multiple records in a single form

Rails
#1

Started learning Ruby and RoR a couple of days ago and I’m working on a
dummy app.

I want to allow a user to save 5 records at the same time using a single
form. Let’s assume “contact” records, with each one consisting of a
single
“name” field. It’s a “user has_many contacts” relationship.

Anyone aware of tutorials/documentation on how to achieve this? I’m
having
a hard time modifying the code from a single record into multiple ones.
Chiefly…

1- How to display 5 text fields in the form/correct form tag to use.
2- How to pass an array of those 5 objects to the “create” method (if
it’s
an array that I should pass)
3- How to create the instance variable that has the 5 objects in the
“new”
method so it’s available to the form

#2

Here are good example
http://railscasts.com/episodes/73-complex-forms-part-1

Ahmy Y.

On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 7:05 AM, Mohamad El-Husseini
<[email protected]

#3

On 9 ene, 21:05, Mohamad El-Husseini [email protected] wrote:

1- How to display 5 text fields in the form/correct form tag to use.
2- How to pass an array of those 5 objects to the “create” method (if it’s
an array that I should pass)
3- How to create the instance variable that has the 5 objects in the “new”
method so it’s available to the form

Look at these examples

http://railscasts.com/episodes/196-nested-model-form-part-1
http://railscasts.com/episodes/197-nested-model-form-part-2

or even you could try nested form gem

https://github.com/ryanb/nested_form