Very, very kind.... I do now feel very motivated and it seems that I have finally discovered a support system. May take me days to restructure my site www.echomarket.org to prove or demonstrate my difficulties. Otherwise I thank you sincerely. Liz
On Thursday, April 30, 2015 at 11:50:10 AM UTC-4, Chris Lerum wrote: > > 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/3ff901fa-8ac6-4966-a5cd-0d38f4225f53%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
