Hey why dont you try out partial view. They heavily solve your problem of user creation and topic addition on the same page itself . You can add the add topic partial they in the edit user said itself thereby solving the problem
On 1/30/11, Alexander Farley <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, I'm new to db/web stuff so I have some basic questions. Basic > question: I don't know what to add to my existing scaffolding-generated > CRUD. > > This project requires "Users" who own many unique "Topics". Each "Topic" > will contain a "Blacklist" textfile, several "Rawtext" textfiles and > several "Webtext" textfiles. Some string-parsing code will use the > "Blacklist" file to process the "Rawtext" file, yielding the processed > "Webtext" files. > So far I have a database with tables for "Users", "Topics", > "Blacklists", "Rawtexts", "Webtexts". > > I have used scaffolding to generate basic CRUD functionality for each. I > have specified the has_many and belongs_to relationships in > /app/models. > > The "Topic" table contains user_id:integer and searchstring:string > attributes. I have manually created a "Topic" entry corresponding to an > existing user_id, and modified my user/show.html.erb to display the > user's topics. > > So, here's my goal: I want an "intuitive" flow of "create user"->"create > user's topics" -> "add blacklist for topic". Right now, my "edit user" > view doesn't allow adding topics (topics must be added manually, with a > known user_id). > > Am I going in the right direction? Is there a normal/default way of > editing (adding) a table entry's "children"? > > -- > 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. > > -- Sent from my mobile device -- 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.
