It's to your credit that you got that working, but it's far from conventional - why not post your attempt to get associations working, with your expected result vs. actual, and you'll soon be greeted with a nice 'AHA!' moment. I bet.
On Thursday, April 30, 2015 at 10:18:28 AM UTC-4, Elizabeth McGurty wrote: > > > I don't know if this is an acceptable practice, but I do the following on > update... and it works for me, especially as I have not been been to get > table associations to work. > > > def update > > unless params[:id].blank? > unless params[:parent_object].blank? > > @p_o_hold = ParentObject.find(params[id]) > unless @p_o_hold.blank? > myupdatehash = Hash.new > ///// Then I select from params[:parent_object] that I need and apply > some validation or database format requirements > myupdatehash = [:field => ...., ] > if @p_o_hold.update_attributes(myupdatehash[0]) > @child_object = ChildObject.find(@p_o_hold.id) > unless @child_object.blank? > myupdatehash = [:child_field => @p_o_hold.child_field_value] > ## hash object reuse > @child_object.update_attributes(myupdatehash[0]) > > ..... > > On Wednesday, April 29, 2015 at 4:42:05 AM UTC-4, Jagmeet Singh wrote: >> >> *I am inserting a record in 1st table named as Students and I want to >> insert a record in another table with a value coming from a column Refid >> which is in Students table* >> > -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/717aaec5-c62c-4502-a70e-5109aeb65881%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
