Hi guys, I have a habtm association working properly. My application
consists of both a desktop and a mobile version.
My mobile version is made with jquerymobile and I would like my
checkboxes
in the edit form to look like the checkboxes shown in
http://jquerymobile.com/demos/1.0a4.1/#docs/forms/forms-checkboxes.html.
My desktop code is the following:
<%= check_box_tag “foo[bar_ids][]”, bar.id, @foo.bars.include?(bar) %>
…and page source is the following:
Jquery
Web
My mobile code is:
<% for bar in Bar.all %>
<%= check_box_tag “foo[bar_ids][]”, bar.id,
@foo.bars.include?(bar) %>
<%= bar.Name
%>
<% end %>
</fieldset>
</div>
…and mobile page source is the following:
My mobile checkboxes are rendered as simple checkboxes and not like
mobile
checkboxes (like in the link above). I think that’s because of the id
attribute of my input elements but I’m not sure.
Please note that my jquerymobile is referenced correctly, my mobile
application is fine (except this part) and my desktop version works
flawlessly. If I cut-and-paste the example present in jquerymobile’s
website
in my view, it’s been rendered as expected.
My questions are:
- Can you manage to render checkboxes just like in the jquerymobile
link
above with an habtm association?
- Is there a way to solve my problem (i.e. an alternative way to write
my
rails mobile code in order to have my checkboxes rendered as in the link
above)?
Thanks in advance,
best regards.
Federico
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Federico R.
[email protected]wrote:
…and page source is the following:
in my view, it's been rendered as expected.
My questions are:
- Can you manage to render checkboxes just like in the jquerymobile link
above with an habtm association?
- Is there a way to solve my problem (i.e. an alternative way to write my
rails mobile code in order to have my checkboxes rendered as in the link
above)?
It seems to me this is more of a design/css/jquery issue than a rails
issue.
If rails is rendering correctly, then it is a matter of figuring out
what is
going wrong on the design side. What something looks like on the view
has
nothing to do with what kind of relationship you have. So the good news,
is
yes, you should be able to render the checkbox as you desire. The bad is
you
have to figure out why it is not. Maybe output the class on the mobile
device UI and verify you are getting what expected. You may want to post
this on a jquery forum.
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Jason Fleetwood-Boldt
<[email protected]
wrote:
<label for="19">Jquery</label>
David,
To do that, you specify :id => in the check_box_tag and also* :for
=>*label_tag (you happen to not be using label_tag, but if you were you could
specify :id => )
Personally I never use HABTM, because I always find I’m going to eventually
want to add a field to the join table which you can’t do with HABTM. Use
has_many :through => instead of HABTM. (but that is actually irrelevant to
the problme you have)
Thats a good point… I just got killed by using HABTM and ended up
creating
a join model. Especially if you are dealing with nested forms and want
to
create the join record specifically based on data in the form.
Well, I’m a newbie in rails and habtm worked just fine for my simple
application.
Jason you pointed me in the right direction and after a quick search I
did
it.
My working code is the following (in case somebody needs it):
<%= check_box_tag "foo[bar_ids][][#{bar.id}]",
tag.id, @foo.bars.include?(bar) %>
<%=
bar.Name
%>
David, thank you for your answer too.
EDIT: this code in order to have a successful update:
<%= check_box_tag "foo[foo_ids][]", bar.id,
@foo.bars.include?(bar), :id => bar.id %>
<%= bar.Name
%>
On May 30, 2011, at 6:27 PM, David K. wrote:
David,
I think I see your problem. The for attribute of the label tag has to
match the id attribute of the input checkbox. You have two input
checkboxes with ids of “foo_bar_ids_” – that’s not really allowed by
HTML, you should make that be “foo_bar_ids_19” and “foo_bar_ids_25”
The for of the label tag should match the id of the input tag – this is
actually how HTML works and has nothing to do with rails (see
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_label.asp). I always thought that was
counter intuitive myself but that’s how it works.
To do that, you specify :id => in the check_box_tag and also :for =>
label_tag (you happen to not be using label_tag, but if you were you
could specify :id => )
Personally I never use HABTM, because I always find I’m going to
eventually want to add a field to the join table which you can’t do with
HABTM. Use has_many :through => instead of HABTM. (but that is actually
irrelevant to the problme you have)
-Jason