Because assignment of the new parent record to a child is not immideately persisted. You need to call save to persist it in the database.
So this changes only the object in memory: person.contactable = @contact This updates the database: person.contactable = @contact person.save Dmitry --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

