On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 8:47 PM, nobosh <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have the following Rails3 nested resource in my routes.rb:
>
> resources :books do
> resources :authors
> end
>
> My authors table has ID | name | book_id
>
> Given I'm at the URL /books/312/authors/new
>
> I'm having problems getting a new author created for the book....
>
> Here's my authors controller code:
>
> def create
> @books = Book.find(params[:book_id])
> @author = @book.authors.create(params[:note])
> .
>
this should look like this
def create
@books = Book.find(params[:book_id])
@author = @book.authors.build(params[:author])
if @autho.save
blah blah ....
what you have makes no sense
> .
> .
> end
>
> My NEW FORM (which I think is the problem, looks like this:
>
> <%=form_for [...@book , @author] do |f| %>
> .
> .
> .
>
for this to work in the new action in the controller you must have created
@book and @author like this
def new
@book = Book..find(params[:book_id])
@author = @book.authors.new
if you dont then this [...@book , @author] gets book as nil
>
> <div class="actions">
> <%= f.submit %>
> </div>
> <% end %>
>
>
> When I submit I get the ERROR:
> "Couldn't find Book without an ID"
> And the URL changes to "/books/ & NOT /books/312/authors ... as
> expected
>
post what you do after save, it appears something is wrong in the render
:action => :new section of the create action
>
> Suggestions? Thank you
>
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