If you are versioning records, as in your UserProfile, then you may want to consider a plugin that does this for you. Consider this:
http://github.com/technoweenie/acts_as_versioned/tree/master HTH, Nicholas On Jun 15, 12:49 am, "s.ross" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi-- > > On Jun 14, 2009, at 1:09 PM, arnekolja wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi there, > > > I am totally new to Rails, so please forgive me that probably dumb > > question, but I am stuck with the constellation of having a user and a > > user_profile model. > > > The idea behind this is to have a user with only the user_id that > > has_many user_profiles and only the newest user_profile is active. > > This way I can keep track of all user data changes. But it also > > requires me to create a new user and a new user_profile in one step. > > > So... do you know a good starting point for doing this? I have set up > > the relationships and tried to work with > > > <% u.fields_for :user_profile do |p| %> > > // profile fields here > > <% end %> > > > nested into the user's default creation form, but I do not know how to > > save it in my action (do I have to add something to my model too?). > > > So please, any help is welcome and I assure to ask better questions > > next time, lol :-) > > > Thanks in advance > > > Arne > > You might want to check this out: > > http://railscasts.com/episodes/73-complex-forms-part-1 > > One thing I should mention is that Rails is now supporting a lot of > cool complex-form types of stuff so also read this: > > http://ryandaigle.com/articles/2009/2/1/what-s-new-in-edge-rails-nest... > > Hope this helps. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
