Hey, Just going over some of the accepts of accepts_nested_attributes_for & attr_accessible.
I found with the form and models I've been working on it would be great if I could use accepts_nested_attribtues but I want to propose my case where I just can't make it work. And for secretory reasons wonder where it would ever work for that matter. So below. We have a household setup. We would have a Family object with an id. Now if we were to create one person for the family we could do it easily with: @family = Family.new @family.persons.new(params[person]) But what if we wanted to add a person and a child at the same time via nested parameters? We won't be able to. As the childs family_id field is protected we won't be able to mass assign with the nested parameters. I can't think of a time I would ever be creating a completely "open" object that wouldn't have a single protected parameter. So when do the nested_attributes come in handy besides when your model is un-secure? (This is just me learning there very well might be perfect places for this, I am just wondering where) class Person < ActiveRecord::Base validates_presence_of :name, :family_id has_many :children belongs_to :family accepts_nested_attributes_for :children attr_accessible :name end class Child < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :person belongs_to :family validates_presence_of :name, :family_id attr_accessible :name end class Family < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :persons has_many :children (childs?) attr_protected :id end cheers, brianp -- 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.
