Catch id from form and copy between objects

Rails
1

Hi all,

Not completely sure what I’m doing, but I need to get data from another
table
based on and id. Below is some breakpointer output:

irb> @params
=> {“project”=>{“project_description”=>“point2”,
“project_name”=>“break2”},
“action”=>“create_project”, “id”=>{“collect”=>“6”},
“controller”=>“adm/project”}

The one I want is the ‘6’ in “id”=>{“collect”=>“6”}

The irb output is right after the form submission. The following
statements
are executed

@contact = Contact.new
@project = Project.new(@params[‘project’])
@project_contact = ProjectContact.new(@params[‘collect’])
breakpoint

What needs to be done is catch some fields and copy them based on the
id.

@project_contact.firstname =
@contact.find_on_id_from_form_somehow.firstname

The “find_on_id_from_form_somehow” needs to be replaced with a
conditional
find … i guess. Can somebody give me a pointer?

Thanx a lot.

Regards,

Gerard

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What needs to be done is catch some fields and copy them based on
the id.

@project_contact.firstname =
@contact.find_on_id_from_form_somehow.firstname

The “find_on_id_from_form_somehow” needs to be replaced with a
conditional
find … i guess. Can somebody give me a pointer?

As a long time Lotus Notes developer, I know that “redundancy is
good ;-)”, but in SQL land, is this really what you want? Is the
firstname in @project_contact really independent of the @contact? If
not (that’s what I suspect) then you could have something like

Class Project
belongs_to :contact
end

Class Contact
has_many :projects
end

and in your code write something like:

@project = Project.new(@params…)
@project.contact = Contact.find(@params[:collect])

and later

project contact firstname: <%= @project.contact.firstname -%>

sorry, if this is totally not what you wanted

cu jc

3

Jens-Christian,

There are two contacts tables:

company (hm) ↔ (bt) contacts
project (ho) ↔ (bt) project_contacts
(ho might become hm)

project (ho) ↔ (bt) project_products

When creating a new project I copy some of the fields from “contacts” to
“project_contacts”. The following would occcur with only the contacts
table:
When a contact is destroyed (resigns or starts working for a different
company), the project is no longer visible and will generate errors,
‘nill’
issues I assume.

When I run the new_project method a nice list is created (line 23) based
on a
sql query (line 21). When submitting the form and going to
create_project I
get kinda lost. I’m not sure if line 29 is nessecary. And the line from
the
earlier email:

@contact.find_on_id_from_form_somehow.firstname

Should be on line 36, but I’m still figuring out how to get the contents
of a
specific field of a specific table. I’m going to do this for several,
but not
all, fields. (probably: firstname, lastname, telnumber, email, company
name
and central company telnumber). Hope you can give me some pointers.

Thanx a lot!!

Regards,

Gerard.

 18   def new_project
 19     @project = Project.new
 20
 21     @contacts_list = Contact.find_by_sql('select t1.name,

t2.firstname, t2.lastname, t2.id from companies AS t1, contacts
AS t2
where t1.id = t2.company_id order by t1.name’)
22
23 @contacts_list = @contacts_list.collect { |c| [ c.name + " -
" +
c.firstname + " " + c.lastname, c.id ] }
24 render_action ‘edit_project’
25
26 end
27
28 def create_project
29 @contact = Contact.new
30 @project = Project.new(@params[‘project’])
31 @project_contact = ProjectContact.new(@params[‘collect’])
32
33 @project.project_contact = @project_contact
34 #breakpoint
35 contact = Contact.find(@params[‘id’][‘collect’])
36 @project.project_contact[‘firstname’] = contact[“firstname”]
37
38 #@project.project_contact.save
39 if @project.save
40 flash[:notice] = ‘Project was successfully created.’
41 redirect_to :action => ‘show_project’, :id => @project.id
42 else
43 render :action => ‘edit_project’
44 end
45 end

On Monday 09 January 2006 14:08, Jens-Christian F. tried to type
something like:

What needs to be done is catch some fields and copy them based on
the id.

@project_contact.firstname =

Class Project
@project.contact = Contact.find(@params[:collect])
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