New View Example With Child Object?

Rails
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Could somebody point me to some example code? This must be simple, I
just can’t find any examples. I need a new view (new.rhtml) to include
the creation of a child object. I have a table for servers (Servers)
and a table for IP Addresses (Ips).

Server
has_many :ips
Ip
belongs_to :server

In my new.rhtml I want the IP entered to become a record in the Ips
table. The Ips table is very simple. It has two rows, id and
server_id. Where would I look for example code for new.rhtml and
server_controller.rb?

Thanks for the help!

  • Don
2

Any suggestions here? Thanks.

  • Don
3

On 1/16/06, Don S. [email protected] wrote:

Any suggestions here? Thanks.

  • Don

Here’s an example that handles a one-to-one relationship between
servers.
Since you need multiple IPs per server, you’ll want to work out some
way to address that in the view. One way would be with Ajax and/or
RJS templates; another would be to let the user enter a
comma-separated list of IPs… yet another would be to ask how many IPs
there will be up front, before showing the ‘new’ template, and build
that many form entries via a partial.

#server_controller.rb
model :server
model :ip

def new
@server = Server.new(params[:server])
@ip = Ip.new(params[:ip])
@server.ips << @ip
if request.post? and @server.save
flash[:notice] = “All systems Go.”
redirect_to :action => ‘show’, :id => @server
end
end

#new.rhtml
#I’ve omitted various useful things like labels, help text, etc.
<%= start_form_tag :action => ‘new’ %>
<%= text_field ‘server’, ‘some_property’ %>
<%= select ‘server’, ‘something_else’, some_list_of_options %>
<%= text_field ‘ip’, ‘address’ %>
<%= submit_tag “Create Server” %>
<%= end_form_tag %>

Every input field value for ‘ip’ will be available in params[:ip] once
this form is posted, and every ‘server’ input field will be found in
params[:server].

Saving the parent object (@server) also saves any unsaved children, so
the new Server and Ip objects are both saved in one step.