Complex forms with ruby on rails

Question

I need the form that will edit the array of entities and their related entities(one to many). Like this: Person has many Orders. Form for array of People with their orders.

What rails API can be used to build this form? Please give a code sample.

Answer 1

You want to check out nested_attributes_for in Rails 2.3

http://ryandaigle.com/articles/2009/2/1/what-s-new-in-edge-rails-nested-attributes

Answer 2

Check out the following tutorials:

1. Edit Multiple Railscast
2. Nested Object Form