You may want to check out this blog post. I think it may help with what you are looking to do:
http://www.justinball.com/2008/07/03/checkbox-list-in-ruby-on-rails-using-habtm/ On Dec 22, 8:59 pm, "Simon Macneall" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a Message class which has_many Message_Users, Message_User is > basically a join table with an attribute, and belongs_to a User. > > so it kinda looks like the following: > > Message has_many :message_users > > MessageUser belong_to :user > > User - lots of user stuff > > What I want to do, is on the Message create screen have a list box with > all the users in it, and when the Message is created have it automagically > create 1 MessageUser for each user selected, and link them to the new > Message through the MessageUser association. Is this possible, or do I > need to grab the list of users selected and manually create the structures? > Or can anyone see a better way to set up the structures? > > Hope the question is clear. > Cheers > Simon --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
