Balaji Rajagopalan wrote: > Hi > Im using the 5 tables+5 views+one model+one controller.so i can't > understand and give any idea > > balaji
Generally for Rails, 1 db table == 1 Rails model. If you're trying to do this with a single model, I assume that you'll have to: 1. construct that model so it contains equivalents for all the fields from all the tables. 2. Pass this model from view to view, editing some fields, and keeping the rest as hidden fields on each form. Like form1 shows fields 1 and 2, hides fields 3 through 10. Form 2 shows fields 3 and 4, hides 1, 2, 5 through 10, etc. 3. the controller has to know which form submitted so it knows what to do next... go to the next form, or try to save the data. A variable stored in a hidden field should suffice for that, @current_step or something like that. 4. When you finally submit from view 5 and go to save, extract the fields for the parent table and save that record. Re-read that record to get its id, and put that in the parent id field for each of the sets of fields you have to save to your child tables. And wrap it all in a transaction so you can rollback if the third or fourth model fails validation. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
