Lookup from related tables

Rails
1

I have been working on this for 3 days and haven’t been able to solve
it.

I have 2 tables…

clients
belongs_to: case_managers

case_managers
has_many: clients

When entering new clients, I need to have some type of select box that
allows me to pick the case_manager (by name) so that the ‘id’ field from
the case_manager table is inserted into clients.case_manager_id field.

I cannot figure out how to do that with either auto_complete or select
functions. This isn’t exactly covered in Agile book.

Can anyone point me to an example of how this is done?

Thanks

Craig

2

In your clients controller and the new action, load your casemanagers:

client_controller.rb:

def new
@client = Client.new
@case_managers = CaseManager.find(:all)
end

views/clients/_form.rhtml:
<%= options = [[‘Select a Case Manager’, ‘’]] + @case_managers.collect {
|cm| [cm.name, cm.id] }
select ‘client’, ‘case_manager_id’, options %>

Something like that should work for you. Not tested though just off the
top
of my head.

Bob S.
http://www.railtie.net/

3

Bob - thanks for taking the time to review my issue

I’m certain that I followed your instruction but I get an error that I
can’t resolve…I’ve run into this error many times in all the various
methods that I’ve tried.

NoMethodError in Clients#new
Showing app/views/clients/_form.rhtml where line #21 raised:

You have a nil object when you didn’t expect it!
You might have expected an instance of Array.
The error occured while evaluating nil.collect

Extracted source (around line #21):

18:
19:

Case Manager

20: <%# text_field_with_auto_complete(:case_manager, :name) %>
21: <%= options = [[‘Select a Case Manager’, ‘’]] +
@case_managers.collect { |cm| [cm.name, cm.id] }
22: select ‘client’, ‘case_manager_id’, options %>
23:
24:

ID

Craig

4

Looking at your code, it appears your case_manager is actually casemgr
in
the db. Adjust your naming scheme appropriately. Remember, convention
over
configuration.

Bob S.
http://www.railtie.net/

5

No, the ‘casemgr’ thing you are seeing is only labels (not active code
areas) and I never bothered changing the labels - I have now.

I have solved that issue.

Thanks to your help

Craig

6

Solved (finally) - thanks Bob

I had to use ‘case_manager.collect’ - not ‘case_managers.collect’

Does this deserve a wiki page? This took days to work out.

Craig