Rails scaffolding from scratch has its drawbacks..

Question

1st Question:

I'm trying to make the create method work, but it appears that my form is sending data innapropriately to my DB. This is the server.log :

Processing Admin::AdminWysisController#create (for ::1 at 2010-06-22 13:43:58) [POST]
Parameters: {"commit"=>"save", "action"=>"create", "authenticity_token"=>"P8pW7GnSNr7RZcxFcejpfsu9YCX7z8hO0DJPH3rYalQ=", "controller"=>"admin/admin_wysis", "admin_wysi"=>{"post_published"=>"<p>\r\n\tstinky</p>\r\n"}}
User Columns (2.0ms)   SHOW FIELDS FROM `users`
User Load (0.3ms)   SELECT * FROM `users` WHERE (`users`.`id` = '1') LIMIT 1
SQL (0.1ms)   BEGIN
User Update (0.2ms)   UPDATE `users` SET `updated_at` = '2010-06-22 17:43:58', `perishable_token` = 'XMxt1yi5_4JEwPP-21GO', `last_request_at` = '2010-06-22 17:43:58' WHERE `id` = 1
SQL (0.4ms)   COMMIT
AdminWysi Columns (1.0ms)   SHOW FIELDS FROM `admin_wysis`
SQL (0.1ms)   BEGIN
AdminWysi Create (0.1ms)   INSERT INTO `admin_wysis` (`post_published`) VALUES(NULL)
SQL (0.4ms)   COMMIT
Redirected to http://localhost:3000/admin/admin_wysi
Completed in 139ms (DB: 5) | 302 Found [http://localhost/admin/admin_wysi]
SQL (0.1ms)   SET NAMES 'utf8'
SQL (0.1ms)   SET SQL_AUTO_IS_NULL=0

The most important part of that statement is this one :

"admin_wysi"=>{"post_published"=>"<p>\r\n\tasdfasdfasd</p>\r\n"}

Which should be just simply :

 "post_published"=> "<p>\r\n\tasdfasdfasd</p>\r\n"

Let's look at my view..

- form_for @admin_wysi, :url => admin_admin_wysi_path do |f|
    = f.error_messages :header_message => FORM_ERROR_HEADER_MESSAGE, :message => FORM_ERROR_MESSAGE
    = f.cktext_area :post_published, :cols => '70', :rows => '30', :width => '555px', :height => '240px', :toolbar => 'HQ'
    %br/
.grid_2.prefix_5.align_right
  = f.submit 'save', {:class => 'button'}

Here is my controller :D

def new
 @admin_wysi = AdminWysi.new
end

def create
  @admin_wysi = AdminWysi.new(params[:admin_wysi])
  if @admin_wysi.save
    redirect_to admin_admin_wysi_path
 end
end

Any idea what might be bugging this?

2nd Question
Strange as it is, when it saves, it redirects me to website.com/wysi NOT website.com/wysis/ . The latter one is a working link, the prior is not a real link.

My routes.rb looks like this :

map.namespace :admin do |admin|
  admin.resource :admin_wysi
end

Answer 1

The params you're getting are what's expected in a Rails app. Otherwise, there would be no good way to access only the parameters that are part of the object to the save (for instance, to discard the commit, action, etc. key/value pairs). What errors are you getting from the create action? If it's redirecting you, it seems like it is probably not getting errors while saving.

As to your routing problem, the reason you're getting the singular (wysi) rather than plural (wysis) is that you're using map.resource instead of map.resources. If you change that, I believe it should fix the routing problem.