On 27 Oct 2008, at 22:44, Lawrence Lu wrote:
> > I'm creating a practice app on RoR, but i've run into this problem and > I'm not sure how to proceed. Basically, its a stock picker, and there > are Portfolios, Stocks, and Holdings. Holdings belong to both > Portfolios and a particular Stock. > > In my "create holding" page, i'm allowing the user to provide a Stock > symbol (a string column in the stock table) and a quanity. However, > for obvious reasons this doesnt work as when the form is submitted, > this line: > > @holding = Holding.new(params[:holding]) > Expects the value of "stock" that is passed in to be an actual Stock > object, not a string representing the symbol for that stock. > change params[:holding][:stock] before you pass it to Holding.new Fred > How exactly should I get around this without converting the Stock > field to a dropdown? > > Thanks! > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" 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/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
