Hi!
I’m building a discussion forum in my rails app and there seems to be
a problem in creating a new topic in the forum.
I’m using three models for it forum, topic and post.
The topic model has following fields:
t.integer :forum_id
t.integer :user_id
t.string :name
t.datetime :created_at
t.datetime :updated_at
t.integer :posts_count,:null => false, :default => 0
the problem comes when i try to create a new topic in a forum. The
controller has following code:
def create
@topic = Topic.new(:name => params[:topic][:name], :forum_id =>
params[:forum_id], :user_id => logged_in_user.id)
@topic.save!
@post = Post.new(:body => params[:post][:body],
:topic_id => @topic.id,
:user_id => logged_in_user.id)
@post.save!
respond_to do |format|
format.html { redirect_to posts_path(:topic_id =>
@topic, :forum_id => @topic.forum.id) }
format.xml { head :created, :location => topic_path(:id =>
@topic, :forum_id => @topic.forum.id) }
end
rescue ActiveRecord::RecordInvalid
respond_to do |format|
format.html { render :action => ‘new’ }
format.xml { render :xml => @post.errors.to_xml }
end
end
Now when the row is inserted into the topics table the forum_id field
is blank. I cant figure out what’s happening here. Please help…