Hi, On May 12, 9:43 am, Guitaronin <[email protected]> wrote: > The problem is that using fields_for generates form fields for each > existing record, and for one new record.
The 'new record' is behaviour I'm unaware of! I think that you have to build the new record in the association. > Does anybody know how to do this? Code is below. > > Models: > class MessageThread < ActiveRecord::Base > has_many :messages > accepts_nested_attributes_for :messages, :allow_destroy => true > end > > class Message < ActiveRecord::Base > belongs_to :message_threads > end > > View (show.html.erb) > > <% @message_thread.messages.each do |message| %> > <%= message.message %> > <% end %> > > <% form_for @message_thread do |thread_form| -%> > <% thread_form.fields_for :messages do |message| %> > <%= message.label :message %> > <%= message.text_field :message %> > <% end %> Nested attributes fields_for supports setting an explicit object as the second parameter, like so: <% thread_form.fields_for(:messages, Message.new) do |message| %> Although the proper way would be to set @new_message or similar in the controller and pass that, or thread_form.object.messages.build(). Hope that helps, Andrew --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
