Step through each recently created element in Rails?

Question

I'm creating an admin tool for a project where I create an Event, then create multiple Speakers (on one page), then need to create multiple Talks for each Speaker.

Rather than have all the Speakers listed on one page after creation, and then put multiple Talks against each Speaker (which looks crazy due to all the input boxes), I'd like to gradually step through each Speaker, create the Talks for each Speaker, then move on to the next Speaker until all Speakers have been completed.

What's the best way to go about achieving this?

Do I need to create an array of all the created Speakers, then step through it somehow? Or set a flag on each created Speaker, so that once the user has clicked 'save talks' it finds the next speaker (in this event) that hasn't been saved?

Answer 1

I suggest reading this:

http://www.digitalmediaminute.com/article/1816/top-ruby-on-rails-tutorials

and afterwards:

http://www.sapphiresteel.com/How-To-Create-a-Ruby-On-Rails-Blog

after that lecture you will bea ble to solute that Problem in a "best-practise" Way.

Since your Question is a basic one i would like to show you that Tutorials. No offense...but i think this lecture helps you more.

Answer 2

Further to my comment to bastianneu, I've spent about 10 minutes with AASM (http://github.com/rubyist/aasm) and have got it doing exactly what I needed.

Sometimes I guess you need to type out your question to properly clear it in you brain :)