Parent Child together in input form

Rails
1

Hi all,

I understand how rails is supposed to work when dealing with one entity
input form.

However, when I have a relation between two objects (composition):

Customer(1) --------> (1)Address

How can you create a inputform where both the properties of a Customer
and
Address can be filled in?

Regards,

Harm de Laat

2

Harm

Check the thread
“managing belongs_to fields in a form”

I posted this very question a few hours ago.

Alain

3

Harm,

Sorry, I misread your post. Your question is different.

I would simply input the 2 objects independantly in the same form

  customer = Customer.new
  address = Address.new

, build them separately from their parts, link the address to the
customer and finally save them both.

Alain

4

Harn,

You can start from the default scaffold code, and simply extend it:
(caution: untested advice, suggested by a newbie !!)

def new
@customer = Customer.new
@address = Address.new
end

def create
@address = Address.new(params[:address])
@customer = Customer.new(params[:customer])
@customer.address = @address

if @address.save && @customer.save
  flash[:notice] = 'Member was successfully created.'
  redirect_to :action => 'list'
else
  render :action => 'new'
end

end

For the rhtml, update the view (the _form.rhtml partial) accordingly.

Alain

5

Thx for the reply!

Do you maybe have an example of this?

How do I do this in de RHTML file?

In JSP i might be able to do something like:

<input type=“text” name="<%= <c:out value="${customer.address.street
}"/>

What is the equivalent of the above in RHTML?

Regards,

Harm.