I asked a question on stackoverflow.com but did not get a wanted answer... So I am asking here. [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4037020/rails-3-model-associations]
I am making a simple BBS system with ruby on rails3. There are 3 main models, which are Members/Categories/Articles. Article belongs to Members/Categories, (member_id/category_id columns in db table) and each member/category 'has_many' articles. When a specific user tries to write an article, I tried it by def new @article = current_member.articles.new end and that automatically filled in a member_id section when an article is created without any form input or anything. I used a session to create a current_member. Now, what should I do if I want to automatically fill a category_id column of an article?? Is there something like I believe every data related jobs should be done within model. However, I am passing in :category value through url For example, localhost:3000/articles/qna/new would mean the article should have an category_id of 2 (assuming category with id=2 has name=qna, also, I did routing jobs that I can successfully get 'qna' from params[:category]). Should I use def create current_member.articles.build(:category => get_category_id_from_name(params[:category])) end ? But is it okay? because I believe since models cannot access params variable, controller has to do the above job, and thats not 'rails way' I do not want to use nested form, because I do not want user to choose an category when they are writing. Its like, if there is a QnA board, and if user clicked 'write' button, that means user is writing in a QnA board. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- 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.
