Hello again Fugee, Fields in forms in Rails do not necessarily have to correspond with model attributes.
Generally, you might find the Rails edge guide on forms very helpful- as well as the `form_with` API docs which are a bit more specific for some of these questions. https://guides.rubyonrails.org/form_helpers.html https://apidock.com/rails/ActionView/Helpers/FormHelper/form_with Nick Schwaderer On Mon, 17 Feb 2020 at 07:45, fugee ohu <fugee...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Monday, February 17, 2020 at 12:38:03 AM UTC-5, Walter Lee Davis wrote: >> >> You may use fields_for for any object that you have declared >> "accepts_nested_attributes_for" in your form's parent model. It obviously >> makes the most sense to do this with a related object. >> >> Walter >> >> > On Feb 16, 2020, at 10:41 PM, fugee ohu <fuge...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > Can I use fields_for for any models or do they have to be associated? >> > >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. >> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >> an email to rubyonra...@googlegroups.com. >> > To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/09881329-3137-4c90-94a1-6495bccc90bd%40googlegroups.com. >> >> > > In my app users have many artists, artists have many tourdates, artists > have many venues, users have many venues through artists, tour_dates when > added have to provide a venue so they can select from clubs or festivals > that are included in the app, and they can also create a user defined > venue, or select from previous user defined venues I had this working > before I started concerning myself with associations by prepending all the > venue fields with venue so state and city become venue_state and venue_city > and I add an attribute_accessor to the tour_dates model for each venue > field I feel like that still the way to do it, as long as the user defined > venues belong to the artist and user so if the user ever deletes the artist > the venue will be deleted also > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/f2ba1d66-8420-41e9-b228-2456080f0ffb%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/f2ba1d66-8420-41e9-b228-2456080f0ffb%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/CAGN3KYykHS73kLZ1G4XuQqJrRwzjrJ1wPa2vmtT%2Bib8z-ffMyg%40mail.gmail.com.
