Save other model's fields from a certain view

Question

Hi everyone,

I'm really new at Ruby On Rails and I'm working with a baseApp that comes with the login and user registration functionalities. It also creates an empty profile for a user when they sign up.

Then, I've created a migration to add fields to the profiles table, such as firstName, gender, state, country, etc.

What I'd like to do, is to show those fields at the registration form and then save them on the profiles table. How can I do this?

Thanks,

Brian

Answer 1

accepts_nested_attributes_for provides everything you need.

So long as you've st up your user to have one profile you're just about good to go.

Add accepts_nested_attributes_for :profile to the User model. Then set up your form to be something like this:

<% form_for :user do |f| %>
  ...
  User model fields
  ... 
  <% @user.build_profile if @user.profile.nil? %>
  <% f.fields_for :profile do |p| %>
    <%= p.label :first_name %>
    <%= p.text_field :first_name %>
    ...
    Profile model fields
    ...
  <% end %>
<% end %>

The controller needs no modification.

Read up on the nested form section of FormHelper for more details.