fields-for

rails build method for complex model with days of the week

I have a set of nested models for storing prices for individual rooms. Ie. Places Rooms Room_rates Each model has the necessary accepts_nested_attributes_for and has_many belongs_to association and I have a form and a build method which works perfectly for the initial creation. My question is how to make a smarter contro...

Fields_for dynamic label

I have dynamic form which has a set of values. I created a partial which contains text fields which I display. Next to each of them I would like to display a label containing the title of the text. For instance First Name, and Last Name would not be known previously. How do I go about doing that? It seems that I cannot access the attribu...

dynamic check_box using field_for in rails

I have a many-to-many relationship with a link box, and I want to pull those models together into one form so I can update from the same page. I'm really struggling with getting the check_box to even show all the elements of my array - I've scoured the net and been working on this literally all day, and I'm finding it difficult to apply ...

using fields_for in several places

Hi, I have a simple model class Ad < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :ad_items end class AdItem < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :ad end I have an "ads/new" view, that shows me the form for creating the new ad and adding some items to it The .html.erb code is like a following: <% form_for @ad, do |ad_form| %> <!-- some html -->...

Using accepts_nested_attributes_for with a belongs_to association, and using find_or_create_by_attr behaviour

I am building a Rails application which allows a user to create an object that refers to multiple other models, creating them if they do not exist, and just associating to ones that already exist: # app/models/upload.rb class Upload < AR:B belongs_to :user belongs_to :observed_property belongs_to :sensor accepts_nested_attribut...

many nested attribute form_for for single inherit

I have this models class Store < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :person , :class_name =>"person" accepts_nested_attributes_for :person end class Person < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :addresses, :as => :addressable, :dependent => :destroy, :validate => false accepts_nested_attributes_for :addresses ...

How do I fix the fields_for error: @ "is not allowed as an instance variable n" in Rails?

My goal is to enable a user to be able to submit multiple NewsImages from a parent Blog form. My Blog model looks like this: # == Schema Information # Schema version: 20091006171847 # # Table name: blogs # # id :integer(4) not null, primary key # title :string(255) # body :text # profile_id :inte...

Ruby on rails: fields_for do nothing if defined submodel_attributes=

I have such code in new.erb.html: <% form_for(@ratification) do |f| %> <%= f.error_messages %> <% f.fields_for :user do |fhr| %> <p> <%= fhr.label :url %><br /> <%= fhr.text_field_with_auto_complete :url %> </p> <% end %> <% end %> If i have empty Ratification.rb it is ok, fields_for works ok. But if I wr...

composed_of & fields_for

So I have read & re-read the Stephen Chu article on the topic (http://www.stephenchu.com/2008/05/rails-composedof-validation.html), however I am just not having any luck. Per the example on provided in the money gem documentation money.rubyforge .org Model class Payment < ActiveRecord::Base composed_of :amount, :class_name => "M...

Rails many-to-many fields_for: How to access fields_for values?

Hi folks, I'm trying to created a set of nested (many-to-many) forms in rails 3. Everything works fine thanks to fields_for, but I need to put a title above each nested form. That title has the value of the profession_type.name field (which has a prepopulated value) in each respective nested form. I'm having a heckuva time extracting t...

Rails: Can't get fields_for to work inside a nested resource

Hi folks, I'm trying to add a fields_for attribute to a nested rails form. Any time I try to create a new object, it returns Message(#58819400) expected, got Array(#18903800) ... app/controllers/discussions_controller.rb:53:in `create' If I try to access nested fields_for from forms based on non-nested resources (aka "for...

fields_for doesnt working when form_for use symbol

i have a form_for code <%form_for :a,:url=>{:controller=>"biz/a",:action=>"save"},:html =>{:multipart => true} do |f| %> ..... <%f.fields_for :b do |b|%> ..... <%b.fields_for :apples do |apple|%> ... <%end%> .... <%end%> it outputs the html code without fields_for function <textarea cols="40" id="a_b_apples_content" name="a[b][appl...