Hello Bradley, Please check on this railscast http://railscasts.com/episodes/189-embedded-association
This is a better way to handle roles in your case. []'s Rodrigo Dellacqua IBM - IGF Project Manager "Communication is the key" On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 11:46 PM, Bradley <[email protected]>wrote: > I have a user model that has a few different roles (say a client and > an agent) The agent has some extra relationships not found in a > client role (has_one :agent_profile, for instance) > > I have an edit_profile action for an agent that has these nested > attributes in the form and the model > accepts_nested_attributes_for :agent_profile: > > <% form_for @agent, :url => agent_path(@agent) do |form| %> > <%= form.label :name %> > <%= form.text_field :name %> > > <% form.fields_for :agent_profile do |a_form| %> > <%= a_form.label :website, "Website Address:"%> > <%= a_form.text_field :website %> > <% end %> > <% end %> > > If an agent_profile object isn't present however, when an agent edits > their profile, they get the: > > ActionView::TemplateError (You have a nil object when you didn't > expect it! > The error occurred while evaluating nil.new_record? > > Is it common that I would have an after_initialize method such as: > > def after_initialize > self.build_agent_profile if self.role_name == "agent" && ! > self.agent_profile > end > > Seems a bit odd to me to do this for all relationships I have that > accept nested attributes, but I can't really think of a better way. I > also don't want to split the User model into two models because agents > and clients log in/sign up in the same way. > > -- > > 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]<rubyonrails-talk%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > > > -- 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.
