i don't know if location is a special term or not. But I have a question, do have an attr_accessible line in your user model? If you do, check that you have the location attribute listed there.
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Tim Uckun <[email protected]> wrote: > I am having a confounding issue and I hoping somebody can give me a > clue as to what is happening. > > I have one field in my table which is not updating via the form. It > updates fine if I extract the information from the params and do it > manually in the controller. On this form the ebmedded form is also > not updating any of the child records but first I'd like to figure out > what is going on here. > > Basically you have this User has_many :contact_methods. > > The form looks like this. > > - form_for (@user, :url => edit_profile_url) do |f| > = f.label :email > %br/ > = f.text_field :email, :class => "text-input" > %br/ > = f.label :name > %br/ > = f.text_field :name, :class => "text-input" > %br/ > = f.label :location > %br/ > = f.text_field :location, :class => "text-input" > %br/ > = f.label :skills_list , 'My skills are (comma separated list)' > %br/ > = f.text_field :skill_list, :label => 'My skills are (comma > separated list)' , :class => "text-input" > %br/ > = f.label :bio > %br/ > = f.text_field :bio, :label => ' Brief personal summary' , :class > => "text-input" > %br/ > = render 'contact_methods' , {:f => f} > =f.submit > > Every field in here is updatable except the location field. For some > odd reason it won't update the location field when you submit the > form. > > If I do this in the controller it works fine. > > @user.update_attributes(params[:user]) > location = params[:user][:location] > @user.location = location if location > > so why is only this one field not updating while everything else is? > Is "location" a special term? > > -- > 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. > > -- ------------------------------------------------------------- visit my blog at http://jimlabs.heroku.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.
