Yes you were right! I was definitely on the wrong track!

The URL really helped to understand how to create nested active
records.

I still have a big problem. I have two methods in my controller SHOW
and SAVE.

In the show method I extract a lot of data from an XML into a hash
variable. In the save method I want to store that variable in the
database. The problem is that my @hash variable is only available in
the first method.
How can I access a variable from one method to another? Is session or
flash a good idea for that, I don't need that data anymore after
saving to db.

Simplified methods look like this:

class PatentController < ApplicationController
  def show     #This method has more than 50 lines code in reality
    @hash = REXML::Document.new xmlfile
  end

  def create
    title123 = params[:title]
    pub = @hash
    params = {:watchedfamily => {:Prio_No => pub, :title =>
title123, :watchedmembers_attributes => pub}}
    @watchedfamily = Watchedfamily.new(params[:watchedfamily])
  end
end

Cheers,
Sebastian

On 28 Apr., 12:28, Pale Horse <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Sebastian wrote in post #995494:
>
> > Thank you!
>
> > I am still having the problem that the URI gets too large if I want to
> > send to much data to the database. How can I avoid this?
>
> What do you mean by 'the URI gets too large'? If you are running Rails
> 3, I suggest you read more on nested form attributes when dealing with
> active record objects:
>
> http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/NestedAttributes/Clas...
>
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