Using ajax in nested attributes form

Rails
1

How can I use ajax to add nested attributes dynamically into the form
of an object?

I followed the railscast :

but I’d like to use Ajax instead because the method above is sort of
ugly.

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On 6 July 2010 17:33, Mlle [email protected] wrote:

How can I use ajax to add nested attributes dynamically into the form
of an object?

I followed the railscast : #74 Complex Forms Part 2 - RailsCasts

but I’d like to use Ajax instead because the method above is sort of
ugly.

Have you seen

and part 2? It does not use ajax but I would not describe it as ugly.

Colin

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yes I’m currently using those last railscasts methods but it’s getting
pretty difficult to use the method in the edit form.

I am trying to follow an ajax method that should insert a new nested
attirubte form upon clicking a submit button in a form_remote_for. I
put this in the create.rjs

association = :treatments
new_object =
@sample.class.reflect_on_association(association).klass.new

fields = :new_sample.fields_for(association, new_object, :child_index
=> “new_#{association}”) do |builder|
render(association.to_s.singularize + “_fields”, :f => builder)
end

page.insert_html :bottom, :sample, fields

but I don’t know how I can refer to the parent object’s form in order
to call field_for. “:new_sample” doesn’t work. Any ideas?

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Mlle wrote:

How can I use ajax to add nested attributes dynamically into the form
of an object?

I followed the railscast :
#74 Complex Forms Part 2 - RailsCasts

but I’d like to use Ajax instead because the method above is sort of
ugly.

No, actually, you don’t want to use Ajax here. That will mean a round
trip to the server each time you want to add a field. Bad idea. This
should all be done on the client side.

Best,

Marnen Laibow-Koser
http://www.marnen.org
[email protected]