Merci, François! While your suggestion made some sense, it is the reverse situation I need. I am viewing the parent document, and I need to add child parcels to the document (and not pick the owner of the parcel) These parcels are represented by property descriptions, which would include "lot, block, plan" designators. (My simplification to start with uses only Lots). There are 10 000 parcels in the database, and users must ALREADY know the parcel designation in order to add it to the document. The best example is you drafting a mortgage document for which you already know the related property(ies).
So, I cannot present the user with a list of possible parcels. There are too many, and that wouldn't be permitted anyway. I found myself needing to call a non-REST controller method (i.e. addparcel). I managed to get Hobo to find the method by including "webmethod :addparcel" at the top of the controller. But, I was left puzzled as to what/how to respond within the controller, given I just needed to refresh the <table-plus> of parcels. While I found pure Rails examples of what to do (using an .rjs template), I could not determine what to do from a Hobo point of view. "hobo_ajax_response" isn't well documented, and I recall a note to say that "webmethod" might be removed one day. What should I be trying to respond with after having located the specified parcel and added to document.parcels? Thanks, Tim On Sep 25, 4:24 pm, François Beausoleil <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > > You want to look into <name-one/> and using :accessible => true on the > has_many. > > You might want to look at the agility > tutorial:http://cookbook.hobocentral.net/tutorials/agility#associations > > Hope that helps! > François > > On 25 sep, 12:32, tjg <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi all; > > > I'm sure I'm not the first Hobo-er to try this, but I am looking for > > guidance, since a number of hours have already ticked by and I am > > going in circles. I am, by no means, proficient with Hobo (yet), and > > certainly not with Ajax, but here's what I'm trying to pull off: > > > A document shows a table of related parcels. When viewing a document, > > I want to seach for an existing parcel and add it the table of > > parcels, without leaving the page (Ajax). > > > I have: > > > class Document < ActiveRecord::Base > > hobo_model > > fields do > > name :string > > end > > has_many :parcels > > end > > > class Parcels < ActiveRecord::Base > > hobo_model > > fields do > > lot :string > > block :string > > end > > belongs_to :document > > end > > > When viewing a document, I have a table-plus that lists all the > > parcels related to the document: > > > <table-plus with="&[email protected]" part="parcels-table" fields="id, > > lot"> > > </table-plus> > > > Under this, I have a form by which I would like to search for a parcel > > by lot number, and (if the parcel exists) add the parcel to the > > document: > > > <form action="addparcel" method="GET" update="parcels-table" > > message="Searching..."> > > Lot: <input id="parcel[lot]" type="text" name="parcel[lot]"></input> > > <submit label="Search"/> > > </form> > > > My documents_controller.rb has the 'addparcel' action defined: > > > def addparcel > > @document = Document.find(params[:document_id]) > > @parcel = Parcel.find(params[:lot]) > > > #Relate the parcel to the document > > @document.parcels << @parcel unless @parcel.nil? > > > #What do I need to do here to get the document.parcels table to > > refresh? > > #Something like this? > > > respond_to do |format| > > format.html > > format.js > > end > > > end > > > Am I on the right track, here, given this is blatant hacking trying to > > figure out which was is up? > > > For the life of me, I cannot get past Rails bailing with this error: > > > ActionController::UnknownAction (No action responded to 1-new- > > document. Actions: access_denied, addparcel, > > authenticated_user_from_cookie, authorized?, create, > > create_auth_cookie, create_for_package, destroy, edit, ht, > > login_from_cookie, login_required, model, new, new_for_package, > > redirect_back_or_default, show, store_location, and update): > > > The action exists, but what is missing? > > > Many thanks in advance, > > Tim -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hobo Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hobousers?hl=en.
